Sweet Links plug-in for Wordpress TinyMCE Advanced

Sweet Links plug-in for Wordpress TinyMCE Advanced

Having worked entirely with Wordpress customisation the past few months, it became quite apparent early on that there are some obvious limitations with the default WYSYWG editor - TinyMCE. Training clients to use TinyMCE in a CMS environment is pretty smooth right up to the part when I show them how to create a link to an existing page or post. The (reasonable) expectation is that the 'insert link' dialogue should display a list of every page, post or file you've added and created, and then simply select one to make the link. Unfortunately th...

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Fixing the 'read more' problem

Fixing the 'read more' problem

In my continuing journey to be as anal as humanly possible regarding web standards, I thought it about time to look at one of my pet peeves - the 'read more' link, also commonly known as 'more info' and sometimes 'keep reading'. You know what I'm talking about of course. The links like you see on the homepage of this very blog, where content is truncated and followed by a 'read more' link leading to the full article. There's nothing wrong with this practice and in fact it it's an ideal way of fitting points of interest on a single page, especially when you need to preview a lot of content. But my only qualm is with the traditional implementation of such links (I'm a big offender from way back, but I'm making an effort to change!). The problem is that 'read more' by itself is meaningless to a search engine and a screen reader. A site map of a typical homepage for our imaginary company below - let's call them CompanyX - which contains 'read more' links would look like this: Home About us Read more Read more Read more Our services Read more ...

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