When I do a page source on the published page, ..
You mean “Post”, right ?
“Page” doesn’t have an archive or index listing page. It will just be that page with all content in it, no need for “read more” thing.
for “Post”, I looked into the template and could see that it checks for theme settings to determine if it would be using the_content() or the_excerpt().
So if not already yet, you should check on your theme settings page.
Thanks.
By ‘page source’, I mean that I used the Firefox Browser’s “View Page Source” on the HTML page. (NB Not HRML). I’ll try and dive into the code as you suggest.
It’s all configurable under theme setting page, no need to touch the template file at all.
I have looked in ./wp-content/themese/zbench/wp-content
zbench seems to install some custom functions in the functions.php,
archive.php, and index.php seem to call them.
If I set the Excerpt? switch, as suggested by paulwpxp (twice) above in Settings : Theme Options : Appearance then the front page is beautifully summarised, with hyperlink buttons with the text mentioned in the php filters.
Do you reckon that’s how it’s meant to be working?
I reckon I should have read http://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt more carefully.
Using buttons influences where the summary starts and stops.
If you want to set the cutting point by yourself with more tag, go with the default, and theme will use the_content().
If you don’t want to waste your time putting in the more tag, under theme setting choose on excerpt option and theme will use the_excerpt().
With the_excerpt() you have the option to craft up your own version of excerpt and put it in the excerpt metabox. If not, the default first 55 words from the post’s content will be used. This default 55 words could be changed (filtered) to other number based on theme, your theme is using 40.
