Blogger Adds Support For Jump Breaks
Google’s weblog publishing platform Blogger announced a new feature bringing built-in support for jump breaks (the “read more” links on most blogs’ front pages). Jump breaks make for a visually cleaner front page by hiding the bulk of each post in the main view.
This has been a long requested feature in Blogger, and the Blogger Buzz post admits that people have been hacking this by manually editing their own HTML for quite some time now. Still, it’s nice to see this officially implemented. Jump breaks can be added to a post via a new button in the editor or you can add <!– more –> in HTML edit mode. See the full article for the details.
How do you feel about jump breaks in Blogger? Is this a long-awaited feature or too little, too late? Let us know in the comments.
You Might As Well Jump! [Blogger Buzz]
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Why does anyone use Blogger any more? Wordpress.com as had this feature and many more since its inception.
Ansel
So if you have a customized template, you have to play with the html, which I can handle. But will the changes break all my old posts with the hacked jump links?
XanderCrews
Now I just have to figure out how to undo all the html voodo I did to make this work before.
XanderCrews
Until blogger sites resolve properly on my phone's 320x240 screen in the same way that wordpress does, all this is just another useless upgrade.
karelj
Doesn't seem to work. The article is cut off, but "Read More" is not displayed.
It's about time. Jump breaks are essential for many blogs (like those offerring free fiction, among others), and the HTML hacks have been awfully inelegant for the most part.
ninedosus
Hate, hate, HATE jump breaks in the first 2 or 3 articles on a front page, and hate them with the passion of a thousand burning suns in an RSS feed.
Who uses Blogger any more? Compared to Wordpress, it's a piece of junk. Besides, so much more flexibility (in Wordpress).
photoben
I needed this once on Blogger, even to the point of looking up solutions (I never found a "hack"). I don't remember why I needed it, but it could be useful someday for me.
@photoben: Wordpress is too confusing and hard to customize, not to mention how slowly its pages load. I've tried multiple times, and immediately go back to Blogger. Feels better.
I don't like them. It's an extra step to read the article - just display the article. I am certainly technically competent enough to find the end of a large posting to get to the next one, without someone shortening it for me...
chrissv
Too Little, Too Late.
Carlo Costanzo
Great feature but I'm already fed up with Blogger's horribleness. As soon as I can figure out how to get my 10 years worth of Blogger posts (FTP, not blogspot) over to WordPress I'll be done with it.
ExpressionEngine FTW. :D
@photoben: What flexibility are you referring to? I just signed up for Wordpress last week and I'm quickly realizing its limitations. If you want to customize the CSS and layout of your blog, you have to pay. If you want to map your own domain, you have to pay. You can't even insert widgets from social networking sites. And you can't insert advertising or affiliate links. And I can't believe how slow it is.. from publishing, to saving drafts, to viewing your entries.
In terms of free blogging service, Blogger is more flexible, and faster. Wordpress is pretty restrictive and slow, unless you upgrade to their premium service.
@[www.google.com] to modify the template and make it work.