Simple "read more" on posts

Jetpack is too complex a plug-in.

After much experimentation it seems like the standard blog formats only allow me to have one text block with everything embedded in it. That would let me control the excerpt length, contents, more, etc. I’m going by the Construction Demo. You can see it on my “A small gallery” blog entry.

Everything else you can do with the Advanced Layout editor would only be there if you open the blog post.

The whole thing seems a lot more complicated than it should be. Ideally, I would like to be able to put blog posts together in Advanced editor with some elements above the fold, then a “more” element, and the rest shows up when you click on that.

Would you please help me understand this a bit better?

Hi Victoria,

The goal is to simply have a picture, slider, etc, plus some intro text as the top of the blog post. Then a <!more> separator, that lets the interested reader look for the rest of the article. This is how all of my blogs have worked with other themes. I had hoped to use the advanced layout editor, because it allows such flexibility on our posts. The only way I see so far is to use the default editor with a single text article, and then embed shortcodes for sliders, etc. (and I don’t know your list of those).

It seems that Enfold decides by itself with Advanced Layout what the excerpt of a post does. I would prefer to control that myself.

The link you shared is broken.