Seemore: a WordPress plugin
Latest version is 1.1, released on 14 February 2009.
Seemore is a WordPress plugin that makes reading posts more intuitive for your many readers. With Seemore, when readers click a (more…) link they see the full article on the screen, not just the part after the (more…).
For example, suppose you go to the Nursery Blog and look at the front page. You might see a summary of the latest post that looks like the following.
Nursery Blog
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
(more…)
Click the more link and you see only the remainder of the post:
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again
But with Seemore, you’ll see the full article:
Nursery Blog
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty together again
This is more intuitive. (Your intuition may vary.) After I click a (more…) link, I often find myself scrolling up to make sure that I am where I think I am, and I’m not missing anything.
For an example of Seemore in action, see the front page of this very site, Semicolon.
Compatibility
Seemore has been tested successfully with WordPress versions from 1.5 to 2.7, and should also work with newer versions as they are released.
Download and Install
Get Seemore at the WordPress Plugin Directory. You can download and install directly from your WordPress administration console.
For a best-of-breed fully-integrated automatic turnkey solution, combine Seemore with my other plugin Evermore, which automatically inserts the (more…) links for you.
If you find any problems with Seemore, please leave a comment here.
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Full WordPress plugin list
- Code Markup — Quickly paste code samples into your posts -- you can even include HTML markup in the code sample.
- Evermore — Automatically display a short preview of your posts on the home page and other multiple-post pages, along with a link to the full post.
- FixBack — Ensure trackbacks and pingbacks are sent with the correct link back to your blog.
- Less — Less is no more. It has been renamed to Seemore and moved to its own Seemore plugin page.
- Plaintext — Allow your readers to download source files (e.g. PHP, HTML, ASP) as plain text.
- Safe Title — Use HTML in post titles in the default WordPress theme (or any other theme).
- Search Meter — Find out what people are searching for on your blog, so you can write what your visitors want to read.
- Seemore — Change the (more...) link so it jumps to the full post, not just the part after the link.
- Top Cat — Specify a main category for your posts, and use template tags to display posts differently according to their main category.
31 comments
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Michael 4 August 2009 at 6:03 am
It’ll be great if this is rolled into Evermore as a configurable option.
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Bennett 6 September 2009 at 9:35 pm
@Michael, adding it to Evermore would just complicate he interface for all the people who don’t want to use it. For those who do want it, just install both!
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Chuck 11 September 2009 at 10:29 am
I’m trying to use Seemore in WP 2.7 and can’t get it to work. I place where I want to place the break but when I visit the page I can see with only 1 hyphen? Thanking you in advance.
BTW, it works fine on my local server…
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Bennett 11 September 2009 at 9:46 pm
@Chuck, make sure you’re using the right method to insert the break. If you’re using the visual editor, you should use the “Insert More tag” button. If you’re using the HTML editor, use the “more button”. This should work regardless of whether you’re using Seemore or not.
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Angelo 20 September 2009 at 3:54 pm
I see no difference in the code between this and when it was “less” … can you point one out?
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Bennett 20 September 2009 at 9:31 pm
@Angelo, it’s exactly the same apart from the name.
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Matteo 27 October 2009 at 10:40 pm
Hey Bennett, this is a great plugin. I have only now discovered it and installed on my blog.
One question: do you have any idea on how to adapt it for Blogger.com blogs? I am running a couple and it would be great to have this feature. I understand the principle behind the plugin (removing the anchor from the “read more” link) but I am no coder. If you’re not familiar with Blogger.com, don’t worry…
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Bennett 27 October 2009 at 11:39 pm
@Matteo, I don’t know if it would possible to write Seemore for Blogger. I’m not very familiar with the Blogger platform, but I don’t think it’s as extensible as WordPress.
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Matteo 28 October 2009 at 12:11 am
Bennett, thanks for your reply. Well Blogger is not as extensible as WordPress, that’s for sure. There are some tweaks than one can implement within the XML of the template but it’s, as I said, tweaking the template itself rather than “extending” with a plugin.
Thanks anyway, I will let you know if I find a workaround!
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tobi 5 January 2010 at 9:56 am
Hey,
i just installed the plugin with the current version of wordpress (2.9) and it does not work. i’m talking about my old posts (more tag allready inserted) and my new posts (new posts with more tag through visuell or html editor). i activated it in the plugin page and after your description it should work fine then. what am i doing wrong?thanks
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Damiano 24 February 2010 at 11:25 pm
Hi, your plug in is very nice, but i have one question:
how can i change the “Read the rest of this entry »” ? I search in file .php but don’t find nothig..im not familiar with PHP.p.s. sorry for my BAD english
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Bennett 25 February 2010 at 10:30 pm
@Damiano, the “Read the rest of this entry” text is part of your theme. You can edit your theme’s index.php file and change the “Read the rest of this entry” into some other text. Or you could contact the theme author and ask for help. Good luck.
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Pflasterbau 28 July 2010 at 8:23 pm
Does the plugin works with the current wordpress version 3.0.1?
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Bennett 30 July 2010 at 11:47 pm
@Pflasterbau, yes it does.
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A very considerate and intelligent plugin, sir.
You show great sensitivity toward your audience.
Thanks!