myReadMore Published on February 8, 2010
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Welcome the myReadMore word press plugin homepage.
This plugin is intended to increase Word Press accessibility by solving a hyperlink repetition problem in the default “read more” link of all excerpted posts.
There are many plugins available that simply customize the read more link, this is not just one more of them:
myReadMore is aimed at accessibility and not cosmetics.
This is what makes it original. It creates dynamic hyperlinks to all your posts, making them precise and accessible.
Download myReadMore here (updated Feb, 08, 2010)
Facts:
- Most of the times you will not show all your posts content in a listing or in the first page of your website, since it simply takes too much precious “real-estate” prime space.
- Most of the times after a few “teasing” lines of text, you will use the MORE tag to break the post in an excerpt and (let’s say) the rest of the post.
As a result you will have a pretty formatted listing with a few strong lines of each post, and at the end of each, the monotonous “Read More…” link, that takes you to the full post.
Hyperlinks should clearly indicate their targets, so that users know in advance what to expect, should they choose to open them. To avoid this repetition, we need different text links to different content. This plugin is about achieving that in a straightforward way.
One of the many things automatic validations will immediately pick upon is the repetition of different hyperlinks with the same link text. The links actually will lead you to a complete different page, but the link text will always be the repetitive “read more” or similar. Now this is an accessibility obstacle since it confuses users about where to go.
How does “myReadMore” plugin work?
With this plugin you can replace the default “read more” with your chosen text AND adds a chosen number of the post-title-words to it, so all text links read different from each other.
This plug-in is all-user-level config-enabled. This means that “myReadMore admin panel” is present to all admin-level users (subscribers not included) and not only to the global administrator (admin)
Download myReadMore here (updated Feb, 08, 2010)
Accessibility is not a drag. Have fun!
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Very interesting plugin. Thanks for developing it.
I tried this plugin, but unfortunately it doesn’t give an option to customize the ‘read more’ text per post. It’d be really cool of per post you could name it ‘Read more about ‘.
Hi Stephan.
Thanks for using myReadMore plugin, and thank for the comment.
The usage of myReadMore was intended to be as straightforward as possible with the minimum amount of work needed to get it running. So the option to customize the ‘read more’ text per post, and not globally, was not considered in the original idea.
The purpose was to create different links to different content, by including the post title in the link, other then just using the standard “read more” link.
This by WP default results in a set of different hyperlinks all accessible by the same anchor text (read more), wich is a major accessibility mistake.
However your suggestion is something that definitely cold be added in a future version. Keep your eye open for upgrades!
Thanks again!
MAC
Hey there,
Thanks for the explanation. I’ll just keep my eyes open, or maybe write it myself
I’ll let you know.
yo where u found socialMyopia plugin ?
Hi
Thanks for creating the plugin myRReadmore!
Not only does it make some of the my client’s site’s look better it also improved the SEO by giving meaningful links instead of “read more”
I hope you can help me with a quick question:
I’ve been scouring the net for a wordpress plugin to allow font changes like the one you are using on this page.
All the options I’ve tried so far don’t work very well:
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/font-resizer/
AccessKeys -> does nothing useful a the moment,
Do you have any advice on a WordPress Plugin to allow font size changing for visually impaired users?
Regards
Louis Slabbert
Hello, Thanks for creating this useful plugin. I’m currently researching plugins that help with accessibility for a series of blog posts and to use on sites that require good web accessibility. I’ll definitely be using this plugin in both.
One small tweak I think would improve the plugin is to remove the (…) from the end of the link where the whole title does not exceed the allowed number of words.
Thanks once again.
Graham
Hi Graham
Thanks for your feedback. I will definitely consider your suggestion.
If you have ideas of plugins, that could increase WordPress accessibility please let me know. I’ll be very glad to help with the development.
MAC
Hi, Thanks for making this wonderful plugin to improve accessibility and usability!
I just installed and activated myreadmore plugin on both my blogs. I understand how it works and have changed the “constant” words to “read more about” and (3) words from the title(s) of each blog. I went to multiple posts and updated them to see if there was a change in the “continue reading” link text but there’s no difference on either blog. Any advice on what I may have missed? Thanks in advance for your help.
Thank you for the plugin. It’s exactly what I was looking for. I tried to install a few excerpt plugins and this was the best one… Very useful and easy. Thanks again!
Hi sir,
finally i found
ya its very nice! but we need some upgrades too. actually i used but now i deactivate this plugin and waiting for upgrade. bcoz it takes some space from the post line its not looking good, then it takes post tittle prefix in-front of (…) but actually we dnt need like this wordings in front ‘read more’ link. its just to be a link like (…) , [more..] , >> these things are more enough more simple more attraction and too what we need more! pls update ours. i want to activate our plugin as soon as possible bro 
#thanQ