Add 'Read More" to blog post

So here how you could add read more button in

your blog, step by step.

1. Log into your Blogger account and select the Blog in which you want to add the read more button

2. Select Template button from the Left navigation menu

3. Click on Edit HTML

4. Select the check box Expand Widget Templates on the top

5. Do a CTRL+F and search for: <data:post.body/>

6. Replace the code with script below:

<!– For read more button script 1 starts –>

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == “static_page”‘>
<data:post.body/>
<b:else/>

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType != “item”‘>

<div expr:id=’”summary” + data:post.id‘><data:post.body/></div>
<script type=’text/javascript’>createSummaryAndThumb(“summary<data:post.id/>”);
</script> <span class=’rmlink’ style=’float:right;padding-top:20px;’><a expr:href=’data:post.url’>Read more…</a></span>

</b:if>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == “item”‘><data:post.body/></b:if>
</b:if>

<!– read more script ends –>

7. Search for </head>

8. Paste the following code just above the tag:

<!– For read more button script 2 starts –>

<script type=’text/javascript’>var thumbnail_mode = “no-float” ;
summary_noimg = 430;
summary_img = 340;
img_thumb_height = 100;
img_thumb_width = 120;
</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(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>

<!– read more script 2 ends –>