Creating post teasers/excerpt

I have set my posts to protected access (all) so a snippet is viewable on the home page, http://www.rudemagazine.co.uk, and when you click on each post it goes through to the membership options page. This is fine but I need to show some teaser content/excerpt followed by a ‘read more’ link which goes through to the membership options page otherwise I’ll get no sign ups and think it may restrict feed content to facebook/google etc.

I’m not particularly technical so if there’s a step-by-step guide/video that explains how to do this could you send it on? I’ve scoured the forums/videos and can find shortcodes/more key mentions but am not sure if there’s a quick way to do this for all posts or whether I have to go through manually and insert code on each post, remove the ‘all’ firewall etc.

Many thanks

Nicci

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Hello Nicci.

To show an excerpt of the post in the posts list, you need the Alternative Views Protection disabled and use the “More” tag in your post.

[hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Restriction Options -› Alternative View Protection[/hilite]
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

Another option is not to use the custom capability or level restrictions on the post, and instead hide the content using conditionals. See: [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals[/hilite]

With the latter, the user won’t be taken to the Membership Options Page, though, because the post itself is not restricted, only part of the content. But you can show the content if the user has access, or the payment options if he doesn’t, using the conditions if that works for you. This is good if you want to customize the pitch according to the post he’s trying to view. This approach is also the best one for SEO because the search engine’s spider can actually open the page and crawl the content that is visible to visitors.

I hope that helps. :)