http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: "Read more" for the_excerpt() en Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:23:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258090#post-1078855 Wed, 20 May 2009 14:58:05 +0000 Desertfrog 1078855@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>You could try using "the_excerpt_reloaded". It's a plugin that allows parameters.</p> <p><a href="http://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the_excerpt-reloaded/">guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the_excerpt-reloaded</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/258090#post-1032754 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:40:46 +0000 protist 1032754@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I'm trying to port an existing blog from Textpattern to Wordpress. In Textpattern, I was able to say, if there's an excerpt use the excerpt and show a "read more" link at the end. Otherwise, show the content field. In Wordpress, I get most of the way there with this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php if($post-&gt;post_excerpt){ the_excerpt(); } else { the_content(&#39;read more&#39;); } ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>This allows me to choose between using the excerpt and the 'more' tag in the content field. The problem is that I can't figure out how to add a "read more" link to the excerpt since it doesn't allow parameters. FYI: I can read and understand PHP, but can't write much myself, yet. Does anyone have any ideas? </p>