Read More function with Pages

  • Resolved jessicalane

    (@jessicalane)


    13 years ago

    Hi,

    I use pages for my website, except for the ‘news’ page, which is a page full of posts- each news item is an individual post.

    On my homepage i list three posts in a sidebar- so i need to keep them short!

    The problem is i can’t get the ‘read more’ function to work correctly. this is the code i’m using at the moment.

    <h2>Latest NEWS</h2>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
<?php query_posts("post_type=post&posts_per_page=3");?>
<?php if (have_posts()): while (have_posts()): the_post() ; ?>
<?php the_title();?>
<?php global $more;$more = 0;?>
<?php the_content(__('more...')); ?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

    [Please post code & markup between backticks or use the code button. Your posted code may now have been permanently damaged by the forum’s parser.]

    the titles display correctly, and the content cuts off at the right place (where i’ve placed the <!–more–> tag), but instead of just saying ‘more…’ is says ‘Continue reading ‘[the title of the news post]’.

    How do i make it so it cuts off the post and just says ‘more…’, linking to the rest of the post.

    Thank you!

Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)
  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    13 years ago

    what theme are you using?

    your theme might be using a filter to change the ‘more link’ text…

    Thread Starter jessicalane

    (@jessicalane)

    13 years ago

    thanks for helping! I’m using my own custom theme. it says this concerning the content / more function in function.php

    function short_content($post_id, $content, $char_length, $read_more_class, $read_more_text) {
$count = strlen($content);
if ($count >= $char_length) {
$content = substr($content, 0, $char_length);
$content.= '... <a class="'.$read_more_class.'"
href="' . get_permalink($post_id) . '">'.$read_more_text.'';
	}
echo $content;
}

    [Please post code & markup between backticks or use the code button. Your posted code may now have been permanently damaged by the forum’s parser.]

    is this where it’s gone wrong?

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    13 years ago

    it says this concerning the content / more function in function.php

    the snippet does not seem to refer to your problem.

    I’m using my own custom theme

    in which case you should be very familiar with where what output comes from.

    this unfortunately makes any support more complicated as the forum’s helpers do not have free access to the code as it would be with themes from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/

    you could try and post the full code of functions.php – http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code

    Thread Starter jessicalane

    (@jessicalane)

    13 years ago

    This is why i’m having difficulty- i’m new to PHP.

    I posted that snippet because i thought it was the most relevant- it is the only part of function.php that refers to the ‘more’ function- i’m sure of this. Is there anywhere else other than functions.php i should check?

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    13 years ago

    coming back to: “I’m using my own custom theme”

    this makes it virtually impossible to suggest any actions – as you don’t seem to know what is going on in the theme, is there somebody else you might be able to contact directly for support with your problem?

    where is the theme coming from?
    did you buy it or got it custom made?

    Thread Starter jessicalane

    (@jessicalane)

    13 years ago

    I’ve taken over the website and inherited it- i come from a html/css/jquery background and am new to wordpress. I’m afraid i can’t even point to to the site as it’s on a local server at present. I had just hoped i was making an obvious error that i had overlooked.

    If you’ve got no other suggestions then i’ll think of something different.

    Thank you for your help.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years ago

    Have you reviewed Theme Development?

    Thread Starter jessicalane

    (@jessicalane)

    13 years ago

    Thank you esmi! but i think i’ve just found the root of the problem- the wordpress on this server is an old version- the following code works on version 3.5.1 , but not on the server i was using, which is version 3.3.1 does that sounds like it could be the problem??

    the code i’m using now:

    <h2>Latest NEWS</h2>
<br/>
<?php wp_reset_query(); ?>
<?php query_posts("post_type=post&posts_per_page=3");?>
<?php if (have_posts()): while (have_posts()): the_post() ; ?>
<h5><?php the_title();?></h5>
<?php
global $more;
$more = 0;
the_content("More...");
?>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    13 years ago

    does that sounds like it could be the problem??

    Absolutely! A lot has changed since 3.3.1.

    Thread Starter jessicalane

    (@jessicalane)

    13 years ago

    Brilliant, Thanks a lot 🙂

Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total)

The topic ‘Read More function with Pages’ is closed to new replies.

Tags