{"id":117,"date":"2013-08-20T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arhixe.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2013-08-20T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T10:55:00","slug":"add-automatic-read-more-with-thumbnail-to-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefaddism.com\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Add Automatic Read More With Thumbnail To Blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; text-align: justify;\">Almost every blogger or&nbsp;webmaster&nbsp;uses Automatic read more with thumbnail feature in their blog because it add more functionality and give a professional look to the blog. Beside this it has many advantages like it shows only post summary (excerpt or snippet) with thumbnail on the blog homepage,&nbsp;labels&nbsp;and&nbsp;archive&nbsp;page that increase your blog page views, it help to&nbsp;reduce blog load time&nbsp;of&nbsp;your blog by reducing the long lengthy posts into a short summary with first image of the post&nbsp;at homepage. It also help to&nbsp;reduce bounce rate of blogger blog&nbsp;because if reader is interesting to read the full post then he\/she have to click on read more link hence less bounce rate. As you know now the benefits of adding read more link into blogger, let see how to add it with very simple steps.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=5285156839311992844\" name=\"more\" style=\"color: #ed702b;\"><\/a><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald, arial, serif; font-size: 30px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;\">Add Auto Read More To Blogger<\/h3>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<ol style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">Go to your Blogger&nbsp;<b>Dashboard<\/b>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<b>Template<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">Backup blog template&nbsp;to prevent the template by any crash during making changes to add read more.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">Click&nbsp;<b>Edit HTML<\/b>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<b>Proceed<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">Check&nbsp;<b>Expand Widget Template<\/b>&nbsp;checkbox.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">Press&nbsp;<kbd>Ctrl<\/kbd>+<kbd>F<\/kbd>&nbsp;and find the below code in your template.<\/li>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.5625; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"background-image: url(http:\/\/www.bloggertipstricks.com\/wp-content\/themes\/eleven40\/images\/blockquote.png); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: none; margin: 5px 5px 20px; padding: 25px 30px 5px 70px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #999999; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5625; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.5625; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px;\">and paste the below code just above \/ before it.<\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"background-image: url(http:\/\/www.bloggertipstricks.com\/wp-content\/themes\/eleven40\/images\/blockquote.png); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: none; margin: 5px 5px 20px; padding: 25px 30px 5px 70px;\">\n<div style=\"color: #999999; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5625; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.5625; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">Now search&nbsp;<b><data:post .body=\"\"><\/data:post><\/b>and replace it with the below code.<\/li>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.5625; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"background-image: url(http:\/\/www.bloggertipstricks.com\/wp-content\/themes\/eleven40\/images\/blockquote.png); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: none; margin: 5px 5px 20px; padding: 25px 30px 5px 70px;\"><p><span expr:><data:post .body=\"\"><\/data:post><\/span><br \/><b:if cond=\"data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"float: right; padding-top: 20px;\"><br \/><a expr:href=\"data:post.url\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blogger.g?blogID=5285156839311992844\" style=\"color: #ed702b;\">Read More<\/a><\/span><br \/><b:else><br \/><b:if cond=\"data:blog.pageType == &quot;archive&quot;\"><br \/><\/b:if><\/b:else><\/b:if><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #999999; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.5625; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px;\"><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">Now preview your template and save.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;\">Customization:&nbsp;&nbsp;Below are some customization tips that you can do in the first code to achieve the following results.<\/div>\n<ol style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 25px; text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">showImage: true, This code will show summary with thumbnail. If you don\u2019t want to show thumbnail then change true to false.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">imgFloat: \u2018left\u2019,&nbsp;To change image location replace left with right.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">imgWidth: 120,&nbsp;imgHeight: 90,&nbsp;Default width and height of the thumbnail. Change these values according to your need.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">defaultThumb: \u2018https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-GRP8IcURRsw\/T9MjiNWXUcI\/AAAAAAAAB88\/QEDpDHxI55o\/s1600\/no-thumb.jpg\u2019,&nbsp;If there will no any image in the post then the default image will be show as a thumbnail. You can change it by replacing it with your own image url.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">words: 65,&nbsp;No of words shown along with thumbnail.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">wordsNoImg: 80,&nbsp;No of words without thumbnail.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">skip: 0,&nbsp;If you not want to show read more on some starting posts then change 0 with no. of posts. For example if you change 0 with 2, then read more function will not work for first 2 posts.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">showHome:true,Change true to false if you don\u2019t want to show read more on Homepage.<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 35px; padding: 0px;\">showLabel:true,Change true to false if you don\u2019t want to show read more on Label Page.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<h4 style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Oswald, arial, serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;\">Output<\/h4>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 25px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;\">Once you save your template, visit your blog. 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