Customize Drupal's 'read more' teaser link placement (Drupal 4.7 or Drupal 5)

Here's a standalone module to provide the customization described at AngryDonuts.com. You can see it in use on this site.

It offers administrator options (at admin/settings/ed_readmore) to enable / disable the tweak, and control placement of the read more link.

You can tweak your css file to provide greater control over the read more link formatting. For example, I use this to prevent the read more link wrapping when it's at the right margin:

span.read-more { white-space: nowrap; font-weight:bold; font-style:italic;}

Compatibility

The module is designed to work with PHP4 or PHP5, but has not yet been tested on a PHP5 installation. Please let me know if you encounter any issues on either platform.

Usage notes

Install ed_readmore.module as usual: create a modules/ed_readmore directory, unpack the fils there.
Then, enable the ed_readmore module.
Visit the admin/settings/ed_readmore page and configure the options. Be sure to check off the options that enable moving the 'read more' link (these are enabled by default in later versions.)

Now hosted on Drupal.org

This module now has a home on Drupal.org: http://drupal.org/project/ed_readmore

You should go there for the latest versions.

Posted by: Mike on Wed, 12/13/2006 at 1:58pm

cool modules

Thanks for pointing out this "tweak" and making a .module for it. I just installed it at:

http://hushedcasket.com

I never thought about "read more" getting lost in all the clutter. I guess that's because I'm familiar with a lot of Drupal sites. I think it does need to be separated after giving it some thought.

BTW: Just found your site and am adding it to my del.icio.us bookmarks and subscribing to RSS feed.

Eric Atkins (not verified) – Sun, 01/07/2007 – 5:08pm

Thanks for the feedback

The "read more" thing has bugged me for a while (ever since starting to use Drupal) - I've had numerous people tell me that they didn't know there was more to a story - they never saw the read more link. (This depends on the theme in use, of course, but hiding the "read more" link in the links block tends to make it hard to modify any other way.

The other advantage to this module is that the read more link shows up in your site's feeds - so readers know that there is more to the story, and are more likely to visit, IMO.

I recommend tweaking the theme's css file for the .read-more span/div - you can make the "read more" link more prominent, if you like. I've done that on a number of sites, and find that it really helps.

I just checked out hushedcasket.com, nice site :D

Mike – Mon, 01/08/2007 – 10:55pm

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