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I don’t think you fully understand the issue. So, let me ask this another way. Suppose you have two posts shown on the homepage. One post contains 5 words with two of those words being links to another site. The second post contains 30 words with no links. Now, suppose you set the excerpt length to a number between 5 and 30 – the first post will be seen in its entirety and the second post will have a “Read more..” link. The links in the first post are seen as text instead of links because your excerpt functionality strips links from full posts on the homepage – your readers won’t know there are clickable links when viewing the homepage. This bug isn’t present when using the built-in <!--more--> functionality that ships with WordPress.

So, you’re asking me to pay for the pro version in order to get the same functionality that WordPress provides for free?

Steve Stern, Dude, you ROCK! Thanks again! I’ve bookmarked that site as it has other tutorials that interest me.

Now that I’ve successfully added the shortcode, what would I need to do in order to add a button in the editor so I don’t even need to type in the shortcode? Just click a button for the shortcode the same way you do for a normal blockquote. I’m guessing this involves adding functions to php files in the theme folder, which is fine with me.

This works perfectly for the shortcode implementation (added to functions.php in the theme folder):

function tipnote_shortcode( $atts , $content = null ) {

	return '<blockquote class="tipnote">' . $content . '</blockquote>';

}
add_shortcode( 'tipnote', 'tipnote_shortcode' );

And this works perfectly for the CSS styling:

blockquote.tipnote {
    color: #313131;
    background: #dfffd9;
    border: 1px solid #a2cc99;
}

I’m adding the above information in case it should be useful to someone in the future.

Steve Stern, Thank you! I actually had the shortcode implemented after reading the shortcode api page that you linked. I used to design web pages, with css, from scratch in a text editor, and I’m already familiar with php, so this was quick and easy. Thank you very much for your help and for pointing me to the shortcode api page. I love WordPress! ??

Steve Stern, Yes, a shortcode would work perfectly for this. Thank you very much!

The forum system botched my original question. I need to be able to enter:

<mytipnote class="tip-note">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</mytipnote>

It’s the <blockquote class="tip-note"> and the ending </blockquote> tag that I need to automate. or I could make it <mytipnote class="tip-note"> with a </mytipnote> tag to end the styling instead of blockquote.

There is a button for block quotes so it follows that I should be able to add something for <mytipnote class="tip-note"> .. otherwise WordPress wouldn’t be able to style anything as a block quote when we press the blockquote button.

I realize this may involved editing core WordPress files and I cam comfortable with that.

I know this is possible, I just need to learn how to do it.

Many thanks to stephencottontail and James Huff for helping to get the code in the OP visible to others. You folks are appreciated.