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Daily Archives: 23 September 2012

A fun WordPress trick: Customise your ‘Read more…’ text

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Here’s a fun trick I learned last night while creating a WordPress theme, and also works for WordPress.com blogs like this one.

Learn how to customise your own ‘Read more…’ text after the jump! →

Posted on 23 September 2012 by Geoff | Tagged WordPress.com

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