Selective Expandable Post Summaries

We have all enjoyed using the expandable post summaries in our blogs or website for those long entries, however there are many times when it really isn't necessary. After receiving a comment asking how to do an expandable post summary on a select few entries in her blog, I thought this might be something you would also like to know how to remedy. Here is a new and improved method so you can be selective and won't see the words 'read more' at the end of every post when there really isn't anything more to read.

Follow the step-by-step instructions as previously posted for implementing Expandable Post Summaries using the Classic Template.

If you are using The New Version of Blogger you can Revert to Classic Template to use this same method or follow these instructions for expandable post summaries using The New Version of Blogger.

The portion of html code (in red) that you placed in your template which looks like this below the <$BlogItemBody$> tag. Delete the 'read more' in between the tags so it looks like this. Save Template Changes.

Go back to the dashboard, click on the title of your blog, click on view blog and now click on the title of your post by going to previous posts in your sidebar. Your browser window will now display the URL of this post. Drag and drop this http:// address you see in the browser window to the desktop.

Go back to the dashboard to edit your post, drag and drop this http://address into the post at the area you want to separate the text for the expandable post summary. Notice this HTML code in red, you need to add this before and after the URL of this post. The example below is how the text will look for your post using the Edit Html. Now when you click the 'Read more'..... in your published blog it will show the full post only for this selective expandable post summary. You have now Created a Clickable Link to implement the 'read more' in your selected post. For all future posts you will need to follow this same method when you want it to be expandable but at least you can be selective for each and every post.