Coherent theme: Perfect, but why disable Read more?
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Hi there, wonder if anyone can help.
I find the Coherent theme perfect, the image dominance, the clean design.
However Read more tags are not working, and it seems inherent to the theme?
Some traffic might not pick up on the need to click the title without saying it in every exerpt, and that seems unfortunate.
Is the developer or anyone else able to make read more work?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi,
A More tag inserted into the post will be overridden by a specific excerpt that has been applied to the post as described in the Excerpts support page. I suspect that you might find that a More tag inserted into your first post will function properly if you first remove the specific excerpt created on the post.
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Hi there, yes I suspected as much, and tried. Instead it inserts a […] which is not a live object. The exerpt is just a little more directive to the actual link for now.
Thanks for writing though!
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On Coherent, posts are automatically excerpted if they are of a certain length, with the […] following the cutoff point. I count 56 words preceding the cutoff point on each of the top two posts on the blog page of the Coherent demo.
In my tests I find that the More tag will work if inserted at under 56 words (more or less). If inserted after that point, then the automatic excerpt overrides the More tag.
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Fascinating, it will cut the post off where I insert the read more tag, but it does not provide the “read more” link to follow. I wonder why!
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Me too! I was just going to add that point, which I also find peculiar, and rather impractical. I’ve called for staff attention to the topic.
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Hi @unrealskies, that is odd.
It seems it’s part of this theme’s design, since I noticed the demo uses just […] to indicate there’s more.
But I’m not seeing even those dots on your post. I wonder if it’s that you’re using “read more” and “excerpt” in the same post. If you use just one or the other, does it help?
Also, here’s a somewhat similar theme you might like instead. It has “continue reading” links.
https://wordpress.com/theme/affinity -
I wonder if it’s that you’re using “read more” and “excerpt” in the same post. If you use just one or the other, does it help?
In my tests I added no excerpt, and had no default excerpts on the posts involved, yet obtained the same results as @unrealskies. That is, when the More tag is inserted at a point before ~56 words into the content of the post, the post is truncated at that point on the blog page, but no “Read more” link follows the truncation.
When a post is longer than ~56 words, or if the More tag is inserted after that point, then the automatic excerpt kicks in and the excerpt is followed by, or terminated with, the dots in brackets, […].
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The last paragraph of my previous post should begin as follows:
“When a post is ~56 words or longer…” -
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Great. Thanks!
I should have also mentioned that the dots in brackets don’t appear instead of the “Read more” link in the first case scenario I described, which is when you insert a More tag at a point under ~56 words into the text content of a post.
I use the symbol “~” to mean “approximately” or “about,” because I don’t trust my count on that, not knowing whether periods, hyphens, and other punctuation marks are to be considered part of words, excluded, or included in the count.
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Thanks, yeah I knew it would be approximate anyway, so I basically just said there was no read more link if someone used a read more tag in the first sentence or so.
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Right, but the point I made in the last post is that the dots, […], don’t appear either when the More tag is added at a point < 56 words. So not only is there no link to the post (other than the title of course), but no indication on the blog page that a truncated post has been truncated.
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