J1.5:Split an article: Joomla! 1.5

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Splitting a long article

It is sometimes useful to enable the article to be read in full following a summary or a few 'taster' lines - with a Read More button after the first few lines. Sometimes a long article is split into pages. There are two features to do this in the editor:-

1. Read More ..
2. Pagination

Read More ..

There are some pages where a short extract gives enough information for readers to be aware of the content of the article. If they wish to read more detail, they can choose to see the whole feature. In these cases, the Read More facility is very useful.

Open the article for editing

Make sure that the 'taster' text gives a good idea of the content of the rest of the article

place the cursor at the end of the taster text

There is an icon called Read More underneath the Editor screen.

Click the icon

A dotted line is inserted into the article.

Save the article

Only the taster text is displayed. At the end of it there is a READ MORE button. Click on this to show the rest of the article.

To delete the Read More feature

Find the position of the Read More - a dotted line on the screen

Highlight it

Press the Delete button on your keyboard

Pagination

editing buttons

It is sometimes useful to split a long article into shorter sections. This also creates a table of contents, with the entries being the Page Titles that you enter for each page. You do have to decide on how long each page is to be but there is an option to view the whole article in the index. So this can be a very useful thing to do for some articles.

Insert a page break

Open the article in the editor

Position the cursor where you want a page break

There is an icon at the bottom of the Editor part of the editing page

Click on the Pagebreak icon

A small dialogue box appears above the editor. The Page Title is likely to be the name of the heading or main content of the next part of the article. If you do not enter anything - this becomes the page number by default.

there are examples in sample data - reference to one here -

Enter the name of the page

Click Insert

To delete a page break

Find the break in the article - it is marked by a grey image across the article

Place the mouse cursor in the image

Press Delete on the keyboard

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--Lorna Scammell December 2010