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I’m a complete noob at EE.  I’ve made templates for Joomla! and wordpress, so I have extended knowledge of html and css, but not too much js and php.  FYI.

How do I make that nice “readmore” link that links to the extended part of an entry?
How should I set up my data structure?

I want to have the {summary} be the excerpt and {body} be what the “readmore” links to.

Should it be obvious?  What am I missing?

Hey K.Brown!

Inside the

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="{my_weblog}" orderby="date" sort="desc" limit="5"}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

tags, you can place an if to check if there is text written in either body or extended. If it is, then it will display a link to your post. I have this inside mine:

{if extended}<strong><a href="http://{url_title_path=" title="Fortsett å lese {title}...">Fortsett å lese {title}...</a></strong>

{/if}

“Fortsett å lese” is “read more” in english. You can change extended to body in your case, so it will be:

{if body} something something {/if}

This: http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/weblog/variables.html
and this: http://expressionengine.com/docs/modules/weblog/index.html
Should also help you in understanding what you could possibly do with EE’s weblogs 😊

Yes!  Thanks so much!  I thought I should use an {if} variable, but wasn’t totally sure.  😊

What tag should I use for the href?
*edit*
I figured it out.  The code monkey must have erased some of your code.  Thanks for the help!