It's a little confusing at first, but once I figured it out (be sure to follow the instructions listed in the first comment on this page) it made sense. Make sure that you have the "show read more" settings hidden in both the global preferences AND the section/category page.

Thanks for putting this together. Much better than the core "read more."

its really great to have that readmore right after the text or wherever you want, for that default joomla positioning of it two lines below isnt highly aesthetic imo.

took a while to figure out how it works:

after downloading and enabling the plugin, go to articles global params and disable "show readmore".

then just put

{readmorelink}Read more or whatever u wish{/readmorelink}

where you want your readmore link to appear.

do so in "edit html" window of your editor

Thanks, developers!:)

This plugin works fantastic! I also ran into a problem due to php4 and the JUANificent developer came to my rescue quickly and gave me several options to fix it. For someone who knows nothing about PHP, he gave me easy directions and they worked like a charm. THANK YOU! I had been trying to put the "read more" link in the last line of the teaser paragraph, not 2 lines below it as it was by default. This worked perfectly. A million thanks, Juan!

Works perfect as described, easy to use, makes the joomla blog layout much more flexible. One can change every aspekt of the readmore link from content to content. There is no other way to achieve the things you can do with this one, great plugin.

I ran into a minor problem due to php4, the developer (thank you, Juan) helped me within hours.

Its difficult to know what to do here when the developer uses words that cant be found in the editor, for those who dont know can you explain

is it Parameters or preferances? the words are basically not consistant with what i see in my joomla 1.5 editor...

nice idea to change the readmore parameters but you have to add the readmore links manually... why should I remove then the automatic link?

This is very good ... only one problem, you have to enter a read more tag NOT a page break tag.

Would like to say thank you and recommend this plugin — makes creating a gallery or product catalogue using Joomla's built in 'blog' layout feasible. Great stuff!

This is exactly what I was searching for.
I wanted to use a custom image for each article as the read more link, and this mod let me do it.

I actually wanted the image to still show when you read the article, but this is easy. Just comment out the 3rd to last line of code:
//$article->text=preg_replace('#{readmorelink}(.*?){/readmorelink}#s', '', $article->text);

The image will still show but it will not be a link

Also, this mod DOES NOT work out-of-the-box with some 3rd party modules, eg YOOdrawer (www.YOOtheme.com)
However, it only took me 5 minutes to mimic the effect within that, I posted my solution in the YOOthemes forum.

The plugin automatically adds the link to the text, image or flash between the {readmorelink} and {/readmorelink}

Installation instructions:
1) Install the plugin
2) Activate the plugin
3) Add a {readmorelink} example before of the pagebreak line in the article editor
4) In Articles -> Preferences menu, you should search for "Show Read more link" and futher change it to "hidden" to prevent displaying the default Joomla "Read more" link at the bottom of the article introduction.

The "Alternative readmore link" is automatically hidden when you display the full article.