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There are several plug-ins available out there for this functionality, but if you are like me who is a bit lazy :) , here’s a simple way to add other blog’s feeds to your wordpress blog.

How To Display Other Blogs Feeds to Your WordPress Blog

  1. Open the template file you want to put the other blogs’ feeds. For illustration purposes, we will going to edit the sidebar.php. Our goal is to display the latest n posts of our target blog. In my example, we will going to display the latest 3 posts.
  2. To do this, just add the following code anywhere in the sidebar.php where you want to display the feeds, customizing the highlighted text with your own preference :
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On my previous post about customizing The Read More Link, we had learned how to make the link jump to the top of the page. If you don’t want that kind of behavior on your read more links, you may leave the code as is. Now if you want your excerpt to be more enticing and inviting to the readers to continue reading, you might want to customize how the read more link will be displayed.

By default, the read more tag displays more...

If you want to change the words from more…. to something else, just type in the new words into the tag.

Designing the Read More Link

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readmore.jpgIf you are using Wordpress, maybe you are familiar with the ‘more’ (<!–more–>) tag. If this tag sounds unfamiliar, here’s a short description on its usage:

more - <!–more–> WordPress tag that breaks a post into “teaser” and content sections. Type a few paragraphs, insert this tag, then compose the rest of your post. On your blog’s home page you’ll see only those first paragraphs with a hyperlink ((more...)), which when followed displays the rest of the post’s content.

Source: Wordpress Codex

How to use

  1. While writing your post, just click the area where you want to end the excerpted content of your post and click the ‘more’ button on the Quicktag area
      The quicktags are the little buttons found above the editing window in your Administration -> Write -> Post SubPanel.

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