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1. kcire
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I am busy with a gallery-website which shows paintings from a artist. The paintings are divided into years of making...2007,2008,2009 etc.

   Most pages have only a few paintings so they wil not cause the layout to grow vertically. But the page for 2009 already has about 20 images while there actually is space for only 8 images.

   If there are more images, another row, a scrollbar will appear within the content-DIV that shows the images.

   But!

   I would like to arrange it in such a way every page with 8 images gets a (easy addable for the enduser) 'see more' link...which takes a visitor to page 2 of 2009 with another 8 images.

   All this of course without ruining the menu with all kind of options like: 2009-2, 2009-3 etc. These 'extra' pages are just there on the 2009 page.

   So I thought I use the more-tag! Was I right?

   ...but of course this isn't working...

   ...is there a solution for this?

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   To use the <!-- more --> tag in pages you have to specifically set $more as a global variable within the the template. So immediately after the opening <?php, add global $more;.

   Step 2: move down to where you call the_content(). Just before this add $more = 0;

   <?php $more = 0;the_content(); ?>

   And that's it!

3. kcire
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hey Esmi,

   After which opening <?php?!?

   On the page.php? There the following is the first PHP tag:

   <?php get_header(); ?>

   should I change this to:

   <?php global $more; get_header(); ?>

   ?

4. kcire
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I did as I stated in my previous post...there seems to appear a 'more' link...but when I click it, hoping for a next page, the whole layout is messed up and 'all' images are shown on top of it...

   What am I doing wrong?

5. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   <?php global $more;get_header(); ?>

   Sounds like there may be other issues within that theme.

6. kcire
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I was afraid of that...

   Any suggestions on what to do?

   Is there a way to manipulate the URL is produces? Because when clicked on the 'more' link the URL ends with: /archives/#more-1 (or something similair).

   While it came from a URL ending with: archives/category/2009/

   the 'category' is gone...?!

   Thanks for all your attention by the way!

7. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Is there a way to manipulate the URL is produces?

   Not without some serious hacking of the WP core files.

8. kcire
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Mmhh...I will look into further...if I have found a solution I guess it's nice if I mention it here.

   Hopefully I find a solution and remember to put it up here!

   Esmi, thanks a million for all your assistance!

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