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title: "How to add a Read More link in Joomla 2.5 Articles"
description: "Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life here. You may have noticed..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/read-more-articles/
date: 2012-05-30
modified: 2021-11-19
author: "Brad Markle"
categories: ["Joomla", "Joomla 2.5"]
tags: ["Joomla v2.5"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# How to add a Read More link in Joomla 2.5 Articles

Joomla 2.5 has reached its end of life as for 12/31/2014. Please be advised this may be a security risk to your website. You can view more information about the end of life [here](https://docs.joomla.org/Joomla!_CMS_versions).

You may have noticed that some articles in Joomla 2.5 show a **Read More** button, usually when the article shows on a [featured articles page](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/create-featured-articles-menu-item/). The Read More option allows you to break up an article into smaller sections, which makes the articles much easier to display when you don’t have a lot of screen space to work with.

In this article, we’re going to show you how to add a Read More link when [writing an article in Joomla 2.5](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/create-new-article/), which is not the same thing as [adding a link to another article](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/link-to-other-articles/).

## To Use the Read More link in Joomla 2.5

1. [Log into your Joomla 2.5 admin](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-3/how-to-log-in-to-administrative-dashboard/)
2. **Open** for edit the **article** you want to work with. To do this, in the top menu hover over **Content** and click **Article Manager**. Then, using the **filter** feature, find and click on your article.
3. Place your cursor in the article editor where you would like to separate it using a read more link
4. Click the **Read More** button under the article editor. You will then see a **red line **added to your article. If you view the source code of the article, you will that red line is actually the following code: <hr id=”system-readmore” /> [![click-the-read-more-button](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/edu_joomla25_read-more-button_click-the-read-more-button.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/edu_joomla25_read-more-button_click-the-read-more-button.gif)
5. Click **Save** in the top right menu. Visit the Joomla 2.5 page that lists the article, and you will now see a Read More button inserted automatically for you! Before the Read More link: After the Read More link: [![before-read-more-link](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/edu_joomla25_read-more-button_before-read-more-link.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/edu_joomla25_read-more-button_before-read-more-link.gif) [![after-read-more-button-is-added](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/edu_joomla25_read-more-button_after-read-more-button-is-added.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/edu_joomla25_read-more-button_after-read-more-button-is-added.gif)

As we continue our tutorial series about writing articles in Joomla 2.5, we’ll next explain [how to unlock an article](/support/edu/joomla/joomla-2-5/unlock-locked-article/).