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  • 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().

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  • Thread Starter Alan Smithee

    (@ziggy6868)

    Something like this (for illustration only):

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

    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.

    Ryan

    (@daobydesign)

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

    It’s comments like these that make my time spent here all worth it, thanks mate… 😉

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