for the Life of Jon!!.?

So, recently I discovered the <!– more –> tag.  I also discovered that it isn’t the most friendly to work with, especially for bloggers on one of my other sites that aren’t interested in knowing html.

I’ve found that as an html comment, the <!– more –> tag tends to be hidden when editting a post, and it is easy to forget of its existence.  Furthermore, Windows Live Writer seems to lack support for such a feature.

Being a user of Wordpress, and Ultimate Tag Warrior, I put two and two together.  That is, if it doesn’t already exist, find or make a plugin for it, and I like how Ultimate tag Warrior uses [tags][/tags] tags to allow posting of tags more easily from things such as Windows Live Writer (BBCode style).

I present to you an extremely simple workaround for the more tag problem.  I’ve created a very simplistic Wordpress Plugin that allows the use of [more] instead of <!– more –> to declare a more tag.  Now, I don’t really replace the use of <!– more –>, I have just made [more] a synonymn for it.  The advantage here is twofold.  For one, it still uses the <!– more –> tag to render a more declaration, and while using [more] inline in a post, you can always see where you declared a more tag.

All the plugin does is replace any instances of ‘[more]’ inside your post with ‘<!–more–>[more]’, whenever you save your post.  It also hides any instances of the [more] tag when displaying the post.

I’ve found the simplicity works great.  If you have any problems with it, suggestions, etc., leave a comment!  Enjoy!

Download Alternate More Tag Plugin Here (v 1.0)

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