Comment on Blix AdSense WordPress Theme by SEO Dave.

WordPress Blix Theme The post excerpt is an SEO feature to stop your index and archive pages from being too big (without this you can have 10 full posts on your index page!). There’s also duplicate content issues with copying so much content like this.

Yes you can do similar with the more tag, but for SEO reasons I wouldn’t advice changing the code because you’ll loose the SEO’d anchor text you see now (the text links you see now use the title of the post as anchor text, you don’t get this when using the more tag).

That said if you want to make the change it’s not that hard.

Open index.php in a text editor and find

<?php /* Post Teaser Addon Fix */ ?><?php if (function_exists('post_teaser22')) : ?><?php the_content(); ?>
<?php else : ?><?php the_excerpt(','); ?><p>Continue Reading <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p><?php endif; ?><?php /* Post Teaser Addon Fix */ ?>

This code is there to take advantage of a great plugin I’ve added to this page and for those that don’t use the plugin some WordPress coding that does a similar job.

Replace the above code with-

<?php the_content('[Read more]'); ?>

Save and upload the index.php file to your theme folder and check your home page.

Since I have no original Blix installations and don’t want to mess up the SEO of my own sites I didn’t test the above, but it should work.

If that worked OK do the same thing with your other archive template pages, archive.php and search.php.

For SEO reasons I would not make this change.

LOL just had a quick look at an original Blix template and looks like it uses the excerpt code as well.

David