Title: adding read more tag?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# adding read more tag?

 *  [lister110](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lister110/)
 * (@lister110)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-read-more-tag/)
 * Hi everyone, I am using the iTheme-1-1 theme locally and am having trouble triying
   to show jus an excerpt of the post with a read more tag. I have located the index
   file and found <?php the_content(‘Continue reading »’); ?>
 * but cant seem to work out how to amend this so I just get the excerpt. heres 
   the code:
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
             <div id="content">
   
       	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   
       		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
               <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
       		  <div class="date"><span><?php the_time('M') ?></span> <?php the_time('d') ?></div>
       		  <div class="title">
                 <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
                 <div class="postdata"><span class="category"><?php the_category(', ') ?></span> <!-- <span class="comments"><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></span> --></div>
       		  </div>
                 <div class="entry">
   
                 <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
       	<?php the_content('Continue reading &raquo;'); ?>
                 </div><!--/entry -->
               </div><!--/post -->
   
       		<?php endwhile; ?>
   
               <div class="page-nav"> <span class="previous-entries"><?php next_posts_link('Previous Entries') ?></span> <span class="next-entries"><?php previous_posts_link('Next Entries') ?></span></div><!-- /page nav -->
   
       	<?php else : ?>
   
       		<h2>Not Found</h2>
       		<p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
   
       	<?php endif; ?>
   
             </div><!--/content -->
   
             <div id="footer"><a href="http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/wp-themes/">WP Theme</a> & <a href="http://www.ndesign-studio.com/stock-icons/">Icons</a> by <a href="http://www.ndesign-studio.com">N.Design Studio</a></div>
           </div><!--/left-col -->
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * is there something else I have to change in this code, and also the backend of
   WordPress?
 * I have looked at this [link](http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More)
   but cant seem to figure out how this works..
 * Thanks..
 * lister

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 *  Thread Starter [lister110](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lister110/)
 * (@lister110)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-read-more-tag/#post-1141928)
 * bump

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-read-more-tag/#post-1141928)
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