How to Read More Tags on Tumblr

Tumblr offers a Read More function for text posts that allows you to hide any amount of text and images underneath a link. You can employ this tool to hide large images or blocks of texts and avoid cluttering your follower's dashboard, to cover explicit material or to hide spoilers for entertainment, such as movies, television shows and books, so that readers who don't want them aren't accidentally exposed to the information.

Instructions

1. Go to your Tumblr dashboard in your Web browser, and log in to your account if you're not already logged in.

2. Click the "Text" button at the bar on the page; this will be the first icon available, denoted by a piece of paper with a "T" on it.

3. Add a title to your post, if you want one. Tumblr does not require that you add a title to your post.

4. Enter the body of the text that you want to appear before the "Read More" tag. There's no set length for this: you can either put all of your text under a "Read More" link, or you can display a few paragraphs to entice readers into clicking the link.

5. Click the "Read More" button on the formatting toolbar; "Read More" is the second-to-last icon, left of the "HTML" icon, and is denoted by a page being broken by a dotted line. This will insert a gray dotted line into the body of your text, with "Read More" written below it.

6. Write the rest of of your post below the gray dotted line. Everything below the dotted line will be hidden below the "Read More" link.

Tips & Warnings

• If you look at your post in HTML mode, the "Read More" link is denoted with the code "<!-- more -->".

• "Read More" is only available for text posts; the other kinds of posts do not offer this tool.