The Read More option in 1.5 RC3

In my previous post I mentioned the fact that the Read More option of Joomla was not editable anymore.
Before that I wrote about how-to-solve-the-joomla-read-more-problem in version 1.0.x

But I found an item in RC3 in the Advanced Parameters of the article section that makes in possible to do an “Click here to read” text per article..

It is all the way done and marked as “Alternative Read More text:”

The Joomla read more option per article

If you put you own text in there you can have something like:

The result of your own Read More text per article

If you use this option, you will loose the replacement of article title that since RC3 is attached to the Read More.. yes I missed that great new SEO Feature at first glance :-(

Joomla Article titel attached to Read More function

These two combinations are a great asset for Search Engine Optimization and for the visitors of your Joomla 1.5 RC3 based website…

For a production site, I still want to wait for the Stable Release, lets wait and see what else for great little improvements the Joomla Developers have in store for us!
I must admit that the more I find in RC3 the more excited I get about this new 1.5 release.