–more– tag not working | WordPress.org

Resolved meligo
(@meligo)

10 years, 6 months ago

Hey

I really like the live wire theme but I have a small issue concerning the –more– tag, when I use this in my blog posts, the main page of my blog nicely shortens the blog post to where the tag is used, but I don’t see […] or read more or more or whatever.

http://blog.meligo.be is my blog and as you can see the only option users have is to click the blog post title.

Anything I can do to check what is going on?

Many thanks

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Theme Author Sami Keijonen
(@samikeijonen)

10 years, 6 months ago

Yes that is exactly how WP works. You have written custom excerpt in articles, right? Then you dont’t have […] in the end.

In demo I haven’t written any custom excerpt: http://foxnet.fi/demot/live-wire/

Also  tag doesn’t have any effect when theme is using the_excerpt and not the_content function.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_content

Naturally all this can be changed if wanted via child theme.
Theme Author Sami Keijonen
(@samikeijonen)

10 years, 6 months ago
So have you written custom excerpt in every article? If so you can add read more link like this.

Add this line in child theme functions.php inside setup function.
```
add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'my_excerpt_more' );
```
And this after setup function.
```
function my_excerpt_more( $excerpt ) {

	return $excerpt . '<p><a class="read-more" href="'. get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . '">' . __( 'Read More', 'my-text-domain' ) . '</a></p>';

}
```
Thread Starter meligo
(@meligo)

10 years, 6 months ago

Thanks a lot! now it works like a charm 🙂
Maybe something to add to your theme as an option?

kind regards

Theme Author Sami Keijonen
(@samikeijonen)

10 years, 6 months ago

That is an option to add via child theme:)

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