In a blog you have several configuration options. So you can also set whether the separate article on the home page of the blog should appear completely or only an excerpt.
What advantages and disadvantages, and how that has to set this option, this article describes.
Articles cut or not?
The shortening of articles on the home brings advantages and disadvantages. This one should weigh depending on your goals and preferences.
Advantages of reduced products
- The overview on the homepage is simply greater when only the first few paragraphs of each article will be displayed. So visitors can see quickly which articles are new and not have to scroll down forever.
- The charging time is less because not only less text needs to be charged, but often fewer images that appear in the articles below.
- Most shortening of articles on the website brings more pageviews with them. The visitor must click in the purely individual articles to read them completely.
- Since appearing on the website and also in the categories, only the first part of an article, the complete Article is only available on the actual product page. This is from an SEO point of advantage (keyword duplicate content).
Disadvantages of truncated article
- The readers get to the part no complete idea of ??what to expect in an abbreviated article.This is especially the case if the reduction is performed automatically.
- If you have installed advertising or affiliate links incorporated in the article below, then this will only appear on the detail page.
- Registration form or survey also usually appear later in this article and not on the front page.
It is therefore a question at the end, what things are more important one. I decided on my blogs to shorten the article on the home page. This is partly from the fact that my articles are often very long.
If this would not be shortened, then the home would last forever and very large. When news blogs anyway with short articles that can of course look different again.
Technical possibilities
Raises the question, how can I do this in WordPress.
There are several possibilities.
The <- more -> tag
I use the manual version. Here I write an article for a first introduction in which I describe the subject of the article. Then I build the <- more -> tag (the WYSIWYG editor, it’s the button with the dash).
At this point, WordPress stops later, the output from the homepage. This variant has two advantages. For one, I can manage very well, where the output of the text is finished. My introduction will be fully displayed on the homepage and not cut off the middle of a sentence.
Secondly, you can use this tag more then to cut their own news feed. With this plugin “ OZH ‘Better Feed ”you can also automatically cut off the news feed and do not publish the whole article here.
More information about the more tag .
Extract
it when writing a new article also gives a field below that “pull” calls. There one can separate pure write a short text that is displayed on the home page and also in the feed, if desired.
I use this solution, since I have to write enough on the actual article and not even write an additional (albeit brief) excerpt wants.
Functions
It is possible, by specific WordPress functions to implement the automatic reduction of articles on the homepage.
the_excerpt This is the function () is used.
Also, I have not yet implemented, because I like to have control over what is displayed on the homepage. There are also many who use this option. As the excerpts on the homepage, for example, are always the same, what looks good.
One can even depending on the category set separately.
Plugin
The plugin “ Advanced Excerpt ”offers additional settings for the automatic reduction of the items from the home page adapt to their own ideas.
So if you do not want to manually change any settings in the code that can rely on this plugin.
Conclusion
You should consider carefully whether to shorten the article on the home page or not. There are also a number of ways to implement this so that everyone can find his favorite variation.
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