How To Add Auto Read More With Thumbnail To Blogger?

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1. Go to Blogger Dashboard Template > Edit HTML.
2. Check "Expand Widget Templates".
3. Find (Ctrl + F) </head> tag
4. Copy and paste below code just before/above </head> tag.

<!-- B2W Auto Read More Script Start -->
<script type='text/javascript'>
var thumbnail_mode = "yes"; //yes -with thumbnail, no -no thumbnail
summary_noimg = 430; //summary length when no image
summary_img = 340; //summary length when with image
img_thumb_height = 200;
img_thumb_width = 200;
</script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
function removeHtmlTag(strx,chop){ 
 if(strx.indexOf("<")!=-1)
 {
  var s = strx.split("<"); 
  for(var i=0;i<s.length;i++){ 
   if(s[i].indexOf(">")!=-1){ 
    s[i] = s[i].substring(s[i].indexOf(">")+1,s[i].length); 
   } 
  } 
  strx =  s.join(""); 
 }
 chop = (chop < strx.length-1) ? chop : strx.length-2; 
 while(strx.charAt(chop-1)!=' ' && strx.indexOf(' ',chop)!=-1) chop++; 
 strx = strx.substring(0,chop-1); 
 return strx+'...'; 
}

function createSummaryAndThumb(pID){
 var div = document.getElementById(pID);
 var imgtag = "";
 var img = div.getElementsByTagName("img");
 var summ = summary_noimg;
        if(thumbnail_mode == "yes") {
 if(img.length>=1) { 
  imgtag = '<span style="float:left; padding:0px 10px 5px 0px;"><img src="'+img[0].src+'" width="'+img_thumb_width+'px" height="'+img_thumb_height+'px"/></span>';
  summ = summary_img;
 }
 }
 var summary = imgtag + '<div>' + removeHtmlTag(div.innerHTML,summ) + '</div>';
 div.innerHTML = summary;
}
//]]>
</script>
<!-- B2W Auto Read More Script End -->

 Note: You can customize the read more by changing the values of the variables below:

  • thumbnail_mode – set to “yes” if you want to show thumbnail with text summary. Set to other than “yes” to show only text summary.
  • summary_img – specify the number of characters (including spaces) you want to show in the summary, with thumbnail.
  • summary_noimg – specify the number of characters (including spaces) you want to show in the summary, when there is no thumbnail.
  • img_thumb_height and img_thumb_width -specify the thumbnail height and width (in pixels).


5. Now find (Ctrl + F) <data:post.body/> and replace it with below code.
B2W Auto Read More Start -->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<data:post.body/>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'>
<data:post.body/>
<b:else/>
<div expr:id='&quot;summary&quot; + data:post.id'><data:post.body/></div>
<script type='text/javascript'> createSummaryAndThumb(&quot;summary<data:post.id/>&quot;);
</script>
<a class='more' expr:href='data:post.url'>Read More >></a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
<!-- B2W Auto Read More End -->

Note: You can change the words "Read More >>" with your own by changing it in the code.

6. Now save it.

That's it, enjoy! If it doesn't works for you then mention it in comments. I'll glad to help you.

1 comments:

David Kutcher said...

I used to use that same script until I got fed up with the way it messed up the proportions of the thumbnails and had limited customization opportunities. Instead we created our own script that does a MUCH better job of it