Doodlebee

Hi Tom,

there’s lots of tutorials out there already on it. I’ve used several of them on sites for clients. I actually did it just recently on one site (they wanted the “read more” link to expand further content, rather than go to the single post page). How that was done was…yep – I created my own function. In the index.php file, I used it in place of the_content:

<?php toggle_read_more('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?>

And the function looked like so:

function expand_header_js() {
  global $post;
  if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post();
    $text = $post->post_content;
    $find = strpos($text, '<!--more-->');
	if($find !== false) {
		$ids[] .= $post->ID;
	}
		$commentIDs[] .= $post->ID;

  endwhile; endif; wp_reset_query;

    $header  = "\n" . '<!-- toggle read more -->' . "\n";
    $header .= '<script type="text/javascript">' . "\n";
    $header .= 'var $toggleReadMore = jQuery.noConflict();' . "\n";
    $header .= '$toggleReadMore(document).ready(function() {' . "\n\n";

    if(!empty($ids)) {
     foreach($ids as $i) {
         $header .= "\t" . '$toggleReadMore("#expand-content-' . $i . '").hide();' . "\n";
         $header .= "\t" . '$toggleReadMore("#expand-link-' . $i . '").click(function() {' . "\n";
         $header .= "\t\t" . '$toggleReadMore("#expand-content-' . $i . '").toggle("fast");' . "\n";
         $header .= "\t\t" . '$toggleReadMore(this).text($toggleReadMore(this).text() == "Read the full article" ? "Hide the article" : "Read the full article");' . "\n";
         $header .= "\t\t" . 'return false;' . "\n";
         $header .= "\t" . '});' . "\n\n";
       }
    }

    foreach($commentIDs as $c) {
       $header .= "\t" . '$toggleReadMore("#comments_div-' . $c . '").hide();' . "\n";
       $header .= "\t" . '$toggleReadMore("#expand-comment-link-' . $c . '").click(function() {' . "\n";
       $header .= "\t\t" . '$toggleReadMore("#comments_div-' . $c . '").toggle("fast");' . "\n";
       $header .= "\t\t" . '$toggleReadMore(this).text($toggleReadMore(this).text() == "Leave a Comment" ? "" : "Toggle Comment Form");' . "\n";
       $header .= "\t\t" . 'return false;' . "\n";
       $header .= "\t" . '});' . "\n\n";
    }

    $header .= '});' . "\n";
    $header .= '</script>' . "\n";

    $header .= '<!--/end toggle read more -->' . "\n\n";

  echo $header;
}

function toggle_read_more($type = '') {
	global $post;
	$text = $post->post_content;
	$id = $post->ID;

	$find = strpos($text, '<!--more-->');
	if($find !== false) {
	  $text = explode('<!--more-->', $text, 2);
	  $pretext = apply_filters('the_content', $text[0]);
	  $posttext = apply_filters('the_content', $text[1]);

	  $before = '<div id="expand-content-' . $id . '" class="expand-print">' . "\n";

	  $after  = '<!-- end expandable -->' . "\n" . '</div>' . "\n\n";
	  $after .= '<a class="more-link" href="" id="expand-link-' . $id . '">Read the full article</a>' . "\n";

	  $content = $pretext . $before . $posttext . $after;

	} else {
		$content = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
	}

	if($type == 'return') return $content;
	else echo $content;
}

and you had to have the jquery enqueued. The theme I did for this client is massive (seriously customized) so I *think* I have everything here for just this functionality, but I’m not 100% sure I didn’t forget something! bu hope it gets you started, at least. 🙂

Open your browser window, and in the address bar, type in either “localhost:port” (“port” being the port number – usually it’s 8888 but you have to look in your httpd.conf file in Apache to be sure) or “localhost:port/wordpress” (“wordpress” being the directory in your localhost documents section where you’ve placed your wordpress files)

If your’e on Mac, you’re probably using MAMP. Asking MAMP/reading the documentation will give you a better handle on things.

What version of Word are you using? the .docx extension wasn’t available until Office 2007…

I can only guess that because you don’t actually have the content created properly that this is the root of the issue. Usually, when I’m developing a theme for WordPress and I want to code it in HTML first, I only do it to get the proper page layouts in place. once I have that sorted, I’ll break it apart into the template files and THEN I start adding content and checking for functionality. Sounds to me like your’e trying to check the functionality before you even have all the content properly inserted.

I just tried three localhost installs, and wp_get_archives does put out a link (like yours does) and when I click the links, it takes me to the page that has all the archived stuff in there. So perhaps you should try to finish up the theme first, before you start inserting the content? I dunno – I’ve never “mingled” the stuff before – seemed to always make things more difficult.

At the very bottom of the site is a link that tells you who created it (ENTP). Go to their site, and it says:

“Tender Support is a discussion-based customer support system that we built from the ground up…”

I would say it’s completely custom-built and not a plugin that’s available anywhere. if you want it, you’ll have to write it yourself (looks like that’s what they did!)