psychopyko

Quick summary: A simple plugin that gives you more control over the default “more” link generated by the <!–more–> tag.
Download: More Link Modifier (~180kb)
Tested on: v2.2.1, v2.2.2
Description:
The default link that you get from using the <!–more–> tag is Continue reading ‘title here’ and has an anchor link that jumps to the part of the post that corresponds to where the <!–more–> tag was placed. I didn’t like this (especially the anchor link) so went into the source code and hacked it – then thought, hey why not just write a plugin to do it? So here we are – my first plugin!

After activating the plugin, you should be able to find the “More Link” tab under “Options” in the admin page. This plugin will let you change the text that is displayed. You can either just show plaintext, or also include the post’s title in the link by using [TITLE]. If you choose to include the title in the link you have a couple more options:

1. Leave the title as is
2. Limit the title to x characters
3. Limit the title to x words (maximum of 99 words)
4. Add ellipsis (…) to the end of the title if it has been cut off (used with 2 and 3)

For the link text you can use some basic HTML (bold, italic, underline) and also special characters. The last option is you can choose to remove the anchor link, so when the link is clicked it will show the beginning of the post and not the middle.

Examples:
Let’s use two random post titles as examples:

• answer to life the universe and everything
• forty two

Custom Link Text: &raquo; To read or not to read…

• » To read or not to read…
• » To read or not to read…

Custom Link Text: Continue reading <i>”[TITLE]“</i>
(options chosen: max of 3 words, including ellipsis)

• Continue reading “answer to life…”
• Continue reading “forty two”

Custom Link Text: more of ‘[TITLE]‘ &rArr;
(options chosen: max of 20 characters, not including ellipsis)

• more of ‘answer to life the u’ ⇒
• more of ‘forty two’ ⇒

If you have any ideas/suggestions for improvement or found any bugs please email me Hope you like the plugin!