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1. ericcarl
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I'm building a theme that needs to have the "Read More" link placed outside of the post content. Right now my code looks like this:

   <?php the_content('Read More'); ?>

   Which results in this:

   <p>The post content. <a href="..." class="more-link">Read More</a></p>

   ... but this is what I need:

   <p>The post content.</p>
   <a href="..." class="more-link">Read More</a>

   I can't set more-link as a block element because I need it to float, which causes it to interact incorrectly with the paragraph content its contained in. I would prefer not to use the_excerpt unless I have to.

   Is there maybe some way to do this in the theme's functions.php? Thanks for any help!

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 8 months ago #

   <?php the_content('', false,'');?>
   <a href="<?php the_permalink();?>#more-<?php echo $post->ID;?>"><?php _e('Read more');?></a>

3. ericcarl
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Thanks esmi! That does work but it also includes the "Read More" link on every post, not just on the ones using the "Read More" quicktag. Is there a way to do something like this, that checks to see if the Read More link is necessary or not?

   <if read more is used in the post><a>Read More</a></if>

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 8 months ago #

   So far, I've not found a foolproof way of doing this that wouldn't have a pretty big performance hit as you'd have to parse the content of every post for the <--more--> tag.

5. ericcarl
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   All right, thanks for the help!

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