Jose Varghese

The Click to Read More Button plugin allows you to add a customizable “Read More” button to your WordPress posts and pages. When visitors click the button, the full content is revealed smoothly without any page reload.
Key Features:
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<li>Customizable Appearance: Choose button colors, hover colors, and text colors</li>
<li>Flexible Content Control: Set after how many lines the button should appear</li>
<li>Post Type Selection: Choose which post types to apply the functionality to</li>
<li>Exclusion Options: Exclude specific pages/posts by ID</li>
<li>Custom Button Text: Change the button text to match your site’s tone</li>
<li>Auto-Detection: Automatically includes homepage and blog pages if set to static pages</li>
<li>Public CPT Support: Works with all public custom post types</li>
<li>Performance Optimized: Lightweight code that only loads where needed</li>
<li>WordPress Guidelines Compliant: Follows all WordPress coding standards and security practices</li>
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Perfect for:
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<li>Blog posts with long content</li>
<li>Product descriptions</li>
<li>Service pages</li>
<li>News articles</li>
<li>Any content where you want to improve readability and user engagement</li>
</ul>
Easy Setup:
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<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Go to Settings > Read More Button</li>
<li>Configure your preferences (colors, text, line count, post types)</li>
<li>The button will automatically appear on your selected content</li>
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Security & Performance:
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<li>All data is properly sanitized and escaped</li>
<li>Follows WordPress security best practices</li>
<li>Lightweight and optimized for performance</li>
<li>No impact on site speed when not in use</li>
</ul>
<h3>Developer Information</h3>
Technical Details: 
* Uses WordPress coding standards and security practices 
* All data properly sanitized and escaped 
* Follows WordPress plugin guidelines 
* Uses proper enqueue methods for scripts and styles 
* Implements WordPress hooks and filters correctly 
* Translation ready with proper text domain
Hooks and Filters: 
* <code>click_to_read_more_button_content_filter</code> – Filter the content before applying read more functionality 
* <code>click_to_read_more_button_button_text</code> – Filter the button text 
* <code>click_to_read_more_button_should_show</code> – Filter to control where the button should appear
Support: 
For support and feature requests, please contact the plugin author or submit issues through the WordPress.org support forums.

Click to Read More Button

Add a customizable "Read More" button to your posts and pages content after a specified number of lines.

TheFreeWindows

<a href="https://www.thefreewindows.com/16305/download-auto-limit-posts-free-wordpress-plugin-create-automatic-excerpts/" rel="nofollow ugc">Auto Limit Posts</a> is an absolutely free and very convenient plugin that lets you automatically cut down your posts (create excerpts) in Index / Home, Categories, Archive, and Search sections, without you having to provide a “more” tag each time you compose a post.
The plugin allows you to format your references to the full text of your post. You can decide the specific reference text (“Read More,” “Read Full Text,” etc), use CSS directions from inside the admin section of your blog and / or in your main style sheet, in order to decorate or not this reference with a border, particular colors or letter spacing, etc.
The default options proved satisfactory enough, so that most probably you will just activate the plugin and go without making any changes in the settings at all. However, the plugin is extremely easy to configure / fine tune according to your needs.
Auto Limit Posts will not include the rel=nofollow tag in reference links to the full text of your posts. NoFollow may have a negative impact for the popularity of a page, and I don’t see why a blog should give a NoFollow direction concerning its main addresses.
Auto Limit Posts cuts a post after an exact number of letters, or at the end of a word that is close to that number of letters, or at the end of the first paragraph.
HTML tags you may have in your post (image tags, link tags, etc) can be stripped automatically to prevent the braking of your page. Shortcodes too can be automatically removed. A sharing option is also available.
You can see live how the plugin works (in this case the “limit by word” option is used) at the web site of <a href="https://windowslivegadgets.com/gallery/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live Desktop Gadgets</a> where Auto Limit Posts is used to feature excerpts leading to screenshots and downloads in the full text of each post.
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<li>Check also the <a href="https://www.thefreewindows.com/16305/download-auto-limit-posts-free-wordpress-plugin-create-automatic-excerpts/" rel="nofollow ugc">home page of Auto Limit Posts</a> for more information or support. </li>
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Enjoy!

Auto Limit Posts Reloaded

Nice plugin - does what it says.
Styling is outdated, and I'm not sure that the word counter works (letter does)
CSS option is good, overall a neat plugin.



All good

Limit automatically your posts in Archive / Home sections (without NoFollow tag), even style your references with CSS.

Click to Read More Button vs Auto Limit Posts Reloaded