More tag ignored on home page

Just blame Moshu, that’s what the rest of us do 😉

Can somebody explain me please, why <!–More–> tag isn’t working here:

<?php rewind_posts();
global $more;
$more = 0;
$my_query = new WP_Query(‘order=asc&showposts=500’);
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>

<div class=”post” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>
<h2>” rel=”bookmark” title=” <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<small><?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?> <!– by <?php the_author() ?> –></small>
<div class=”entry”>
<?php the_content(‘Read the rest of this entry »’); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>

I receive the whole text and something like this

<p><span id=”more-45″></span></p>

but not more-tag.
Thanks!
(i found that here: http://www.texto.de/texto/wordpress-als-cms-printausgabe-statische-seite)

Heriz,
Thanks for posting this, I was looking everywhere for a fix to why the more-tag didn’t work and only when I palced the “global $more..” part further down in the loop did it work.

The problem is that you are putting the code in the wrong place. You are putting the code after the call to write the content instead of before. Try:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  <?php global $more; $more = 0; ?>
    <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
	<div class="entry">
	 <?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>
	 </div>

Move the code for the global more before the call to the_content (‘Read the rest…

What you are doing is setting the $more variable BEFORE the WordPress Loop uses it.

What you were doing was setting the variable AFTER the WordPress Loop wrote the_content. I hope this makes sense.

I like to put my global call immediately after theif (have_posts()) line, but some folks say it works better in the entry division. That seems to produce unnecessary repeated code calls. But either way should work. Sorry I didn’t come across this post sooner.

Hi all. I found this thread very informative and I already solved some of my problems. However, I have a problem I do not know how to solve. The WP blog is displaying the excerpt correctly (using the <!–more–> tag), except when I click on the post name to see it it only gives me the excerpt again, not the entire text. I hope I am not double, triple or quadruple-posting the same question but I was not able to find an answer in the support forum. Here is the index.php code:

<?php
get_header();
?>
<?php global $more; $more = 0; ?>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class="post">
	 <h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
	<div class="meta"><?php _e("Posted by"); ?> <?php the_author() ?> | <?php the_category(',') ?> | <?php the_time('l j F Y'); ?> <?php the_time() ?> <?php edit_post_link(__('Edit This')); ?></div>

	<div class="storycontent">

<?php the_excerpt(__('(more...)'));?>

	</div>

	<div class="feedback">
            <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
            <?php comments_popup_link(__('Comments (0)'), __('Comments (1)'), __('Comments (%)')); ?>
	</div>

</div>

<?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?>

<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

<?php posts_nav_link(' — ', __('&laquo; Previous Page'), __('Next Page &raquo;')); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thank you for pointing that out Otto. I changed it to <?php the_content(__('(more...)'));?> and it worked! With one problem though. Now, it seems to have screwed up the layout of the front page (displays the text properly excerpted). I have no idea why, because when I click on “more” to display the entire post, everything is displayed and laid out properly.

So it is either the previous situation where the layout is correct but the entire post is not showing, or the other way around. For the past two hours I have been reading the WP tutorials and searching the forum for pointers and still have no idea why. Any help will be much appreciated.