using <!–more–> on category archive only

  • jimotman

    (@jimotman)


    16 years, 10 months ago

    hi.. is it possible to use <!–more–> only when people view the category archive only? I mean, when people view my category archive, they will not see the whole posts, just some first part of the posts which I divide using <!–more–> or maybe it can automatically make a summary of the posts like in the rss feed.

    But when they view the main page, they will see the whole posts.

    Thanks.

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    16 years, 10 months ago

    If you want “whole post on the main page” – dont’use the “more”.
    Instead replace the_content tag in your archive.php file with the_excerpt.
    Warning: it is archive.php (singular!) not archives.php, which is completely different thing!

    Sivar

    (@sivar)

    16 years, 10 months ago

    You could work with excerpts. There is an excerpt plugin (the_excerpt Reloaded), which allows for some customising like length of the excerpts.

    Then you’d have to put something like this into your index:
    if (is_category()) { the_excerpt_reloaded(options); } else { the_content(); }

    edit: too slow ;)… but the plugin might still be worth a look! Oh yes, and I presumed, your category archives would be displayed by your index.php

    Thread Starter jimotman

    (@jimotman)

    16 years, 10 months ago

    thanks, it works! But why after I replace the_content with the_excerpt in the archive.php file, the images in the posts are gone? I have small images in the first part of my posts. Is there any other way so that the images are still shown?

    Thank you.

    Sivar

    (@sivar)

    16 years, 10 months ago

    If you had checked out the plugin I suggested, you wouldn’t ask. 😉

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