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How To Solve the Joomla Read More Problem

Filed Under: Joomla Optimization

I was reading a post from Brain Clark on Copyblogger about the “Click Here problem” and I just had to think about Joomla.

You know the famous “Read more” line that comes up if you split your articles into an Introduction and the main part of the Article.

Reading some of the results in the post got me to change that Text on my Joomla websites..

“Here are the results:

  • Click to continue: 8.53%
  • Continue to article: 3.3%
  • Read more: (-)1.8% “

Change the “Read More..” text

To have another text on your own Joomla site is not that difficult.
First Login to your Joomla Administrator Panel and select the Joomla language manager.

Selecting the Joomla language manager

Then open the English file and use your Browser function “Edit” and “Search” function to find the “Read more…” line.

 Change the read more text in Joomla

Now change the line to the Immortal words.. Click here to continue…, save the file and wait to see if visitors will really read more pages on your website.

Since it is a small change, it could be worth your Time to try it…

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Comments

  1. HDR says

    September 29, 2007 at 12:46 am

    Nice suggestion, I am actually going to try this one out.

    Reply
  2. Pathos says

    September 29, 2007 at 7:06 am

    @HDR

    Would be nice to see the results.. I do like the great Japan Pictures on your website!

    Reply
  3. Simon Townley says

    October 5, 2007 at 8:19 am

    But what we really need is a way to customise the read more for each and every story. Why isn’t it possible to do this? I thought Joomla was supposed to be flexible…

    Reply
  4. Pathos says

    October 5, 2007 at 10:12 am

    @Simon

    Joomla still is a Content Management System, with its limts…

    But so is WordPress, Drupal and Typo3 among others.

    One of the limits is the way that the system needs to separate the Intro text and the Main text, but if you look at WordPress, you will see the same problem.

    One of the things you want to have a look at, is the read more Mambot from Run-Digital
    http://www.run-digital.com/download/readmore_bot.html

    What is does is replace the read more and add the Title of the Page..

    The site is in German, but once you have downloaded the Plugin you could experiment a little with it :-)

    P.s. reminder to myself, writing an article in English about the Read More mambot…

    Reply
  5. Simon Townley says

    October 5, 2007 at 10:52 am

    Thanks for the advice. I’ll need to brush up on my German if I’m to work out if the Mambot is 1.5 compatible.
    I suppose another way around the problem is to simply put a text link with whatever you want to say above the fold, and then leave the read more there as a second (more mundane) link.

    Reply
  6. Pathos says

    October 5, 2007 at 12:43 pm

    @Simon

    I don’t think it will work on 1.5 given the Open letter to the community by Angie Radtke, who is not only the developer of the BEEZ template, but also one of the People behind http://www.run-digital.com

    So for Joomla 1.5 it seems we are on a long road for improvement…

    Reply
  7. Elton says

    January 18, 2008 at 2:46 am

    This is now possible in J1.5

    Check out the Beez template and the advanced article parameters

    Reply
  8. Pathos says

    January 19, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    @Elton

    Luckily the Joomla developers have take the same view as Angie Radtke on this and you can now use any text jou like to use for the Read more option.

    I will be writing on this and other Joomla 1.5 SEO items in the next weeks.

    Reply
  9. busby seo test says

    January 27, 2009 at 9:38 am

    it looks like a great simple tip to optimize Joomla read more, i am gonna try it asap. thank you.

    Reply
  10. busby seo test says

    January 27, 2009 at 9:38 am

    it looks like a great simple tip to optimize Joomla read more, i am gonna try it asap. thank you.

    Reply
  11. web design says

    February 8, 2009 at 12:32 am

    exactly what i was looking for. thanks.

    Reply
  12. Organic SEO says

    June 15, 2009 at 12:27 am

    I am new to Joomla and quite a few things look difficult to graps intuitively, so I often need to click around to find a way to do things. Your method of solving the read more issue seems simple and effective.

    Great tip and thank you for sharing!

    Andrew

    Reply
  13. earth academy says

    June 28, 2009 at 7:54 pm

    how about “click to read more…” ? ;-)

    Reply
  14. Marco Conti says

    July 11, 2009 at 5:19 am

    I am not sure if someone has already pointed this out, but the code in the “Beez” template already has the “read more: Title name” coded in.
    I often use the Beez HTML folder and integrate it into my template to get rid of the layout tables and add these simple nice accessibility improvements.

    Reply
  15. Razvan Girmacea says

    July 19, 2009 at 10:29 am

    I am trying to add TITLE instead of “read more” (like beez html) and sometimes to set it as nofollow.

    Reply
  16. miami web design company says

    July 25, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    Amazing. It never occurred to me that the solution was that simple! How could it elude me for that long?! Now I know better, thanks for simplifying the solution to one of Joomla’s obvious problems.

    Reply
  17. xt:Commerce Templates says

    August 15, 2009 at 10:15 pm

    cool tip to solve n old problem,exactly what i was
    looking for. Thanks.

    Reply
  18. Amar says

    April 1, 2010 at 12:36 pm

    Is it possible in joomla, a page is showing single artical in its content. and it should has “read more..” link.

    Reply
  19. joomla says

    June 30, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    Cool information. Not everyone wants to have the standard ‘read more’ option and it’s nice to have something on your site that’s a little bit unique, or at least matches the personality of your site a little more. I didn’t know it was this easy to change the text!

    Reply
  20. Dom says

    September 9, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    Thanks for the great tip. I wouldn’t know what to do if It weren’t for this blog helping me out. Joomla is pretty difficult to use sometimes.

    Reply
  21. joomla website says

    August 23, 2012 at 11:29 am

    Hey thanks, you have solved one of my joomla web master problem, In old version their was a module for read more and in 1.7 to next versions having only check box, just you have to tick it you will get read more automatically. Its really cool.

    Windsor

    Reply

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  1. Editing Read more text and template files HTML in Joomla 1.5 says:
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