Hi.
I ran into this problem yesterday.
Found out a quick and easy way to fix it.
Follow these instructions:
1. Create a new post
2. Do not introduce anything at the “Excerpt” field (in fact, disable Advanced Editing)
3. Write your post
4. Introduce the following tag <!–more–> at the place where you want the text to break
And there you have it!
Your post should now have something like (more…) or (read everything…) at the place where you included the tag.
I am assuming you are still running wordpress with the php the_content tag in place.
If you want to change what’s inside the brackets, just go to Presentation>Theme Editor and edit the Main Template, and then find the_content tag and change it to something like ‘<?php the_content(__(‘(hey! Why not read the rest of this message, since you got this far?)’)); ?>’
Hope this helps.
Cheers.