So, how can you get into Safe Mode using a USB keyboard?
This is the method:

Use Msconfig to get to Safe Mode
If you have trouble using the F8 key, you can use the System Configuration Utility (msconfig) . For this go to Start, click Run and enter:

and click on the tab BOOT.INI.

Highlight the operating system listed in the section [operating systems]and check by the entry /SAFEBOOT as shown below. Click the radio button MINIMAL and after that reboot. The system should open in Safe Mode. When finished using Safe Mode, open Msconfig again and remove the check by /SAFEBOOT. Otherwise, you will continue to open in Safe Mode whenever you boot.

Like I said, is possible to have problems to access Safe Mode using the regularly F8 key only on a USB keyboard running old systems. The newer ones has the USB drivers instaled in BIOS so you can use the classic F8 method. On these newer computers press F8 a couple of times during the POST (that black screen that came after you press the START button, till the Andvanced Boot Methods (Safe Mode) is coming out.

To have a clearer idea what I’m talking about, take a look here (another blog of mine) or simply take a look on this blog home page and you’ll see articles that are not fully displayed but only with [...]. This mean you need to click the title to get into the complete article page.

You have the option to write everytime <!–more–>, or to give a click on “more” button from over the writing console, anywhere you need to split the post, but is tiring every time to do this. Let’s find out how to modify the blog template to have by default, post, all the time in this way. The method is pretty simple and you don’t need to be a guru in php (I’m not!).

To do this you need to open the index.php and search & replace the template tag the_content() with the_excerpt().
First of all you have to do a backup of index.php. Regularly I copy that file from the server on my pc, in two different folders, and I modify only one file of that two files. If it’s goes wrong I copy back the original file to the server.

The old code of my wordpress theme was:

<? if (is_home() && (!$paged || $paged == 1) || is_search() || is_single() || is_page()): ?>
<?php the_content(‘Read the rest of this entry »’); ?>
<? else: ?>

which I replaced with:

<? if (is_home() && (!$paged || $paged == 1) || is_search() || is_single() || is_page()): ?>
<?php the_excerpt() ?>

Sometimes you can get something like this:

<?php the_content(‘Read More’); ?>

or

<?php the_content(‘More »’); ?>

All you need to do in this kind of situations is to change the code to:

<?php the_excerpt() ?>

If you do not provide an explicit excerpt to a post (in the post editor’s optional excerpt field – in advanced options, under the text console), it will display a teaser which refers to the first 55 words of the post’s content. Let it by default.

Override the index.php file from the server cu modified one, test the website and drink happy a bear.:)
Done!