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It is fairly easy to get a simple blog up and running using Drupal. However, one common annoyance among Drupal users who have switched over from other blogging platforms such as Wordpress, Blogspot, etc. is how Drupal shows blog summaries on the front page. By default Drupal’s front page stories look something like this:

Now there may be a few things that people want to change – but by far one of the most annoying (and I would argue counter-intuitive) thing is that the Read more link for the article is not inline with the text of the article. This is further complicated by the fact that the 2 comments link comes before the Read more link. Luckily, like so many other things in Drupal, this is easy to fix. Simply download the Read More Link module and enabled it.

The Read More Link module

Once you have downloaded and enabled the Read More Link module, you can then navigate to the Admin –> Site Configuration –> Read more link section (http://www.example.com/admin/settings/ed_readmore). From here you can set some of the basic settings. I like mine to be inline and I like to check the box to remove the Read More link from the links section. After simply installing the module and changing those couple settings here is what that same story looks like on the front page:

Very simple to accomplish and now its easy for a viewer to see that there is more to the article. When they click on the Read more >> link they are taken to the full article, same as before.

Note: There are a few more advanced options in the Read more link configuration screen so play around with them if you want to do things like change the position of the link, the link text, or the style.