How To Create Excerpts Or Short Summaries For The Posts in Blogger

Revealing all the details of your posts in the homepage itself is really boring. This is because it makes the homepage very lengthy and also will not look attractive. So, in order to make your blog more attractive and also make your homepage short and sweet, you have to use excerpts to your posts. This also sometimes increases the page rank because of the number of links that increase. That is why you often see that the homepage of a blog has higher page rank than other pages of the blog.

You can add excerpts to the blog in the following way:

First add the following piece to your blogger stylesheet in the layout options.( Note that style-sheet means the portion between <style> and </style> tags.)  This piece of code is for people using classic blogger template.

<MainOrArchivePage>
   span.fullpost {display:none;}
</MainOrArchivePage>

<ItemPage>
   span.fullpost {display:inline;}
</ItemPage>

If you are using other than the blogger classic template from a third party, then use this code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
   span.fullpost {display:inline;}
<b:else/>
   span.fullpost {display:none;}
</b:if>

(Make sure that you backup your template before manipulating through them.)

What we did here was, we told the template to create a span class “fullpost” i.e., to have a option called full post which appears only on post pages.

After you have done the above steps, you have to check the expand widget template option.

Now we are creating Read More Links for every post.

For classic templates:

Search for “<data:post.body/>” tag in your template file and below that copy the following code.

<MainOrArchivePage><br />
   <a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>">Read more!</a>
</MainOrArchivePage>

For other templates, copy the following code into your stylesheet after the tag “<data:.post.body/>”

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'><br />
   <a expr:href='data:post.url'>Read more!</a>
</b:if>

After this save your template. Your work with the template is done. Now while writing the posts add the following tags

<span class="fullpost"></span>

The syntax for the above code is something like this:

Here is the beginning of my post. <span>And here is the rest of it.</span>

Or, instead fo typing the above code everytime in the post, save it in the “post template”. (This is present in

“settings>formatting”)

That’s it. The job is done. You can now see that there are excerpts or summaries created in your homepage. Enjoy!!

Via Blogger Help