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1. eyedea
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   hi :)

   I'm setting up a portfolio site for a friend of mine at the moment. The idea is to show her artwork - making the layout and updatability as simple easy as possible.

   Everything is going fine - but the "more" link will not show up...? I've researched the documentation, tried searching the forums.... seems like it's only me... :"(

   I've edited templates for each section of her portfolio - setting a query to retrieve just 1 categories' posts only - added to the template before the loop:

   <div id="content_artwork" class="narrowcolumn">
   <strong><?php query_posts('cat=4'); ?></strong>
   <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

   .....etc.....

   I am now wondering if this is what prevents the more link from showing up on the page? - Do I need to add anything to make sure to keep the 'read more' feature active?
   or did I simply make some other mistakes somewhere I am not even thinking of....?

   any help would be greatly appreciated :)

   the link to my troubled page: http://magsbrolly.co.uk/wp/?page_id=4

   the first 2 posts should have the 'more' link showing after the text - hiding the thumbnail images (which I'd like to show on the single post page only).

2. eyedea
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   solved it.... :)

   just in case anyone needs it....

   if you have a page which uses your designed template - you can use the above code to pull in all posts belonging to your specified category.

   In order to keep the more function though - you will need to set the global more variable to zero:
   (found in the docs here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/query_posts)

   everything worked fine after - edited my code to this:

   <?php query_posts('cat=4'); 
   
   global $more;
   
   // set $more to 0 in order to only get the first part of the post
   
   $more = 0; 
   
   ?>

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