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1. Alan Smithee
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Is there a way to show an excerpt if there is no "more tag?"

   I just changed from a magazine style layout to a more traditional blog style home page. I want to show html excerpts using the "more" tag the_content() for all new posts, but don't want to go back and edit 700 posts. For the older ones I want to use the plain text the_excerpt().

2. Alan Smithee
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Something like this (for illustration only):

   <?php if ($more) : ?>
   <?php the_content(); ?>
   <?php else : ?>
   <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
   <?php endif; ?>

3. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Use inside the loop (of course).

   <?php
   // Check the content for the more text
   $ismore = @strpos( $post->post_content, '<!--more-->');
   // If there's a match
   if($ismore) : the_content();
   // Else no more tag exists
   else : the_excerpt();
   // End if more
   endif;
   ?>

   Tested as working. There are known bugs with strpos under certain PHP versions, but it should not effect the above code, i've surpressed errors for the above with the @, so in the event any error does occur you won't get the error output onscreen.

4. DaoByDesign
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   @t31os_: Has anyone told you today that you're fantastic? Well you are. Thx m8.

5. Mark / t31os
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It's comments like these that make my time spent here all worth it, thanks mate... ;)

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