Adding Boxes on Pages

by Power User

Posted: 13 years ago 3 replies

WEB DESIGN

Hello Everyone,

I would like to know how to put the text on a page in to a large box for lack of better words. I want to put the first few sentences of my post in an area that is enclosed with a read more button in the rectangle also. Is that something that is possible? Thanks

#adding #boxes #pages

spesialis 13 years ago

what do you use?

wordpress? html?
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- ronc0011 13 years ago
  
  There are other attributes you can apply to the div tag. I just picked a few to demonstrate how to do it.
  If you are doing this in a Wordpress site applying the "Style" at the tag level should over ride any styling defined elsewhere in the site.
  
  Code:
  
  <div style="width:500px; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;border:solid 1px Black;"> <p> Your text would go here</p> <a href="http://www.someURLgoesHere.com" >Your "learn more" text would go here</a> </div>
  
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Harry Spencer 13 years ago
If you're using WordPress and want to have a magazine style blog with a read more link for each post you can change some code in the index.php to display the first 50 or so words "the excerpt" of the post and not the whole post.

go to your index.php file of your WordPress theme and search for the following code and change
Code:

the_content
with
Code:

the_excerpt
If you would like more information you can take a look at the following page

Function Reference/the excerpt « WordPress Codex
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Adding Boxes on Pages

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