Automatic Read More Hack For Blogger With Thumbnail

Now how to install Automatic Read More Hack For Blogger With Thumbnails Demo snapshot is below.

Lets start with its installation:-

Now Login to Blogger Go to Layout > Edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard and check the "expand widget templates" box.

Find the closing </head> tag in your blog template, and paste the following section of code immediately before it:

<script type='text/javascript'>var thumbnail_mode = "no-float" ;

summary_noimg = 430;

summary_img = 340;

img_thumb_height = 100;

img_thumb_width = 120;

</script>

<script type='text/javascript'>

//<![CDATA[

function removeHtmlTag(strx,chop){

if(strx.indexOf("<")!=-1)

{

var s = strx.split("<");

for(var i=0;i<s.length;i++){

if(s[i].indexOf(">")!=-1){

s[i] = s[i].substring(s[i].indexOf(">")+1,s[i].length);

}

}

strx = s.join("");

}

chop = (chop < strx.length-1) ? chop : strx.length-2;

while(strx.charAt(chop-1)!=' ' && strx.indexOf(' ',chop)!=-1) chop++;

strx = strx.substring(0,chop-1);

return strx+'...';

}

function createSummaryAndThumb(pID){

var div = document.getElementById(pID);

var imgtag = "";

var img = div.getElementsByTagName("img");

var summ = summary_noimg;

if(img.length>=1) {

imgtag = '<span style="float:left; padding:0px 10px 5px 0px;"><img src="'+img[0].src+'" width="'+img_thumb_width+'px" height="'+img_thumb_height+'px"/></span>';

summ = summary_img;

}

var summary = imgtag + '<div>' + removeHtmlTag(div.innerHTML,summ) + '</div>';

div.innerHTML = summary;

}

//]]>

</script>

Note in above codes we can change the numeric numbers according to our need

summary_noimg = 430; is post cut height without image
summary_img = 340; is post cut height with image
img_thumb_height = 100; is thumbnail image height
img_thumb_width = 120; is thumbnail image width

Now find this code <data:post.body/> in your template and replace it with below codes.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;static_page&quot;'><br/>

<data:post.body/>

<b:else/>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "item"'>

<div expr:id='"summary" + data:post.id'><data:post.body/></div>

<script type='text/javascript'>createSummaryAndThumb("summary<data:post.id/>");

</script> <span class='rmlink' style='float:right;padding-top:20px;'><a expr:href='data:post.url'> read more "<data:post.title/>"</a></span>

</b:if>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><data:post.body/></b:if>

</b:if>

Preview Your template if its showing thumbnail with read more hack Save it.

To show thumbnail it should have one image in your blogger posts and please upload the .js file to your server and dont forget to change the link with yours in codes to make this hack work.

I am sure everybody will love this hack for sure.