Did your try any of the methods described here?
Customizing_the_Read_More
Yeah, I tried this tag, but it didn’t work – it just showed the code.
<?php the_content(‘Read on…’); ?>
Was it in a PHP file? That’s code that’s used on plenty of sites and it’s never done that before? Is there a link to the site in question?
-tg
You need to edit the index.php
file in your theme directory. Locate that, then locate the line in The Loop that calls the function the_content()
and edit that. THAT line is what needs to be edited, not the actual tag that gets inserted into the post editing area.