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There’s a simple and easy way to make sure it works every time! It just takes a few seconds to check it and make sure.

now I’m sure you’re all familiar with the “read more” button, but for the sake of being thorough, there it is.

Go ahead and enter your text beneath the cut.

Now you’re going to want to familiarize yourself with this button. It lets you edit the raw HTML of the post. It should bring up a window that looks like this:

the <!—more—> is where the cut comes into action. But if it’s too close to the body of the text, it won’t go! You can check this by previewing your post before you post it. If the preview shows your text, the cut isn’t working. If it just displays a “Read more” then that’s how you know it already went! Congratulations, you can stop right here! But if it wasn’t cooperative the first time, this is how to fix it, and it’s pretty much the easiest thing ever:

Enter a line break after the cut. Just press the enter key to move everything below it to a new line in the HTML box. That’s honestly all it is. If you preview it again it should work now.

Note! Sometimes the text will already begin on a line below the cut once you open up the HTML. Just enter a line break between it anyways if you’re trying to get the cut to work. Trust me.

Hope this helped and was at least semi-coherent! Just ask me if there are still any questions about it!

This is a godssend to the HTML-dumb like me. 8l