what theme are you using?
can you post link to your site?
if you are using the_excerpt(), is the ‘read more’ link done with the usual filter function in functions.php?
or is is hardcoded in the template?
Thread Starter
sbl03
(@sbl03)
I am creating my own theme based on the Bones Responsive template. It is in localhost, I do not have a test server set up. And yes, that is the exact function I used to create the link.
An alternate solution would be to remove the read only link altogether, and insert my own in the footer, but I would want it to conditionally display when there is actually more to read.. going to look in the codex more.
Thanks!
to make a hard-coded ‘read-more’ link, work with:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_permalink
is the post footer code directly in the template, or a function?
Thread Starter
sbl03
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The code is directly in the template:
<header></header>
<section class="post-content clearfix"></section>
<footer></footer>
Hard-coding the ‘read more’ link in the footer achieves what I’m looking for, but how do you make it conditionally show if there is actually still more to read? I tried checking if(get_the_content()==get_the_excerpt()).. didn’t work.
if(strpos($post->post_content, '<!--more-->')) and if (function_exists('has_excerpt') && has_excerpt()) didn’t work reliably… the first didn’t work in a post with a lot of images, and the second didn’t work at all.
you could check for whatever character your excerpt would append to shortened articles;
example – checking for the default characters:
<?php if(strpos(get_the_excerpt(),'[...]')) { ?>
<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="read more">read the rest ...</a>
<?php } ?>
Thread Starter
sbl03
(@sbl03)
Great idea! This ensures that it uses whatever conditional WordPress used. I changed the function to change the ‘read more’ text into something obscure that would never come up in a post, wrapped it in a class, used that conditional to check for the text inside the loop, and styled it to never display.
Inside functions.php:
function new_excerpt_more($more) {
global $post;
return '<div class="moretext">@more@</div>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');
Inside index.php:
<?php if(strpos(get_the_excerpt(), '@more@')) { ?>
<a class="readmore" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">read more...</a>
<?php } ?>
Inside stylesheet:
.moretext {
display: none;
}
