Can’t Utilize Read More Tag

  • Resolved paigechilds

    (@paigechilds)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    Hey everyone,

    I’ve been working on setting up my blog and have run into a problem that I cannot find a solution for. I’ve set up with the Primer theme, which looks great and I think I like EXCEPT I cannot for the life of me figure out how to manually adjust how much of my posts displays on my homepage.

    Here’s what’s happening:

    No matter where I put my read more tag, my homepage only shows about the first line and a half of a post before cutting to the “continue reading” button. I want to show much more of my posts on the front page, but even if I put the read more tag much lower in my post, it cuts off on the homepage far before this.

    I’m assuming that there is something in the Primer theme’s code that is overriding my read more tag. I’m certainly not an expert in code, but I’ve read articles online trying to solve this issue and I don’t see the keywords mentioned in other theme’s codes in mine. So I’m just not sure what needs to be changed.

    Any thoughts on how I can manually adjust how much of my posts displays on the homepage using the Primer theme? Thank you in advance and I am happy to respond to any clarifying questions.

    Best, Paige

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  • wensolutionsupport

    (@wensolutionsupport)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Hello @paigechilds,

    The theme takes up the excerpt to display in the blog listing page before the “Continue reading” button. Using the “more tag” from the WordPress editor will not work in while excerpt is being used.

    To display your desired excerpt under the posts in the blog listing page, go to your post edit screen > Screen Options > Boxes and check the “excerpt” option.

    A new excerpt box will be displayed below the default WordPress editor in which you can paste in your desired excerpt to display before the “Continue reading” button in the blog listing page.

    Hope this Helps,

    Best Regards !!

    Thread Starter paigechilds

    (@paigechilds)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Thank you so much for your help with this! That solved my issue.

    I do have one additional question though — am I able to embed videos in my excerpts? I tried to add one in using html but it didn’t work. Is this possible?

    Thanks again!

    davidstang

    (@davidstang)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    I’m still having troubles with “read more”:

    1. When I create a Post, some text from the top of my Post will appear on the left sidebar. An ellipsis within square brackets appears at the end of the truncated text. But it is not an active link, and takes me nowhere when I click it. To get the ellipsis, I must have no text in the Excerpt box, even if “Excerpt” is not checked.

    2. If I put text in the Excerpt box, and text in the body of the edit window, both look fine without a <!–more–>, but in Preview, there is still nothing that links the excerpt on the left to the rest of the page on the right.

    3. If I uncheck “Excerpt” then go to “Preview Changes”, the previous Excerpt remains on the left side bar.

    So I can’t figure out how to get a link from the excerpt to take me to the document, and don’t know how to use the <!–more–> tag.

    bdbrown

    (@bdbrown)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    @davidstang – This topic is over four months old and already marked as Resolved. It’s unlikely that anyone is monitoring this thread. I’d recommend starting your own topic instead:
    https://wordpress.org/support/theme/primer/

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by bdbrown.
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