Jekyll "Read more" link

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It is nice to use instead of on your Jekyll home page, but then users can’t see if there is more to read until they open the whole post.

To add Read more link, you can use this simple snippet.

{% if post.excerpt != post.content %}
    <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}{{ post.url }}">Read more</a>
{% endif %}

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Brendan

05 Jun 2019, 11:24 PM

Hey this is cool

Andrew

29 Dec 2019, 07:49 AM

Hi,

New to blogging with Jekyll, so glad I found the your site. Very professional.

The code, when added to my index.html, basically works. I have still done something wrong. I start with a test excerpt in the front matter, and get the intended hyperlink that takes me to the whole post.

But the markdown post doesn’t get formatted properly. I have a couple of animated gif files at the top, which appear in the wrong size. The text is now the wrong size also, and scroll bars appear for the overall over-scaled post. It seems like the theme design for the basic theme (Lanyon), is stripped out and replaced by basic HTML . Any help appreciated.

Cheers,

Andrew.

Stanko

29 Dec 2019, 09:35 AM

Hey Andrew,

Not sure what you have done wrong. Are you missing Front Matter section in your post? This tells Jekyll which layout to use, and without it, it will render unstyled HTML.

Cheers!

27 Feb 2016

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