Insert more tag not working on post preview?

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Nov 6, 2008 at 8:44 pm

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  I have an insanely long post that I want to break up with the Insert More tag. I have inserted the tag and saved the work, but when I hit preview post, the preview shows up in its entirety – no tag. Anyone else have this problem?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 6, 2008 at 9:41 pm

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  I don’t think it’s a problem. The effect of the more tag applies only when you see a series of posts in the main blog page. When you view a single post you see the complete post, of course, and the same should apply to the preview.

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Nov 7, 2008 at 6:45 am

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  Wait a minute… that’s not what it’s supposed to be, is it?

  As I understand it, this is like a “jump to” tag. The post is long – nearly 8,500 words long, with pictures and such.

  So instead of having this one huge post load entirely, it should load only the first two or three paragraphs.

  Then it should say: read more – with a link.

  It should have nothing to do with how many posts are already up.

  Or is tech unable to answer this?

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 7, 2008 at 7:15 am

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  No, as I understand it when you hit Preview it’ll show you the whole thing. The Read More will only be visible in the Edit window or on the main page once the post has been published.

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 7, 2008 at 7:16 am

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  You can settle the question by opening up the Preview page and then doing View Sourcecode and looking for your Read More tag. If it’s there, all is functioning as normal.

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Nov 7, 2008 at 9:01 am

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  Thanks for that, rain. The code is there, I would just like to see what it’s going to look like. Why have a post preview if you don’t always see what it’s going to look like before you post?

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 7, 2008 at 9:28 am

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  You do see exactly what it will look like. That particular post. You do NOT see what it looks like on the blog as a whole. It’s not a BLOG preview, it’s a POST preview, and when looking at any individual post you don’t see the More tag.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 7, 2008 at 9:58 am

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  @lettershometoyou:

  Now that this hopefully settled, note that for a very long post you could also use this every once in a while (breaks the post into a sequence of numbered pages):

  <!--nextpage-->

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Nov 7, 2008 at 10:04 am

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  @rain…

  So if I understand you correctly, people landing on my blog via the URL for that particular post will see the entire post? And those landing on it via the blog URL will see that post on top, in its “shortened” form?

  @pana…
  thanks! I’ll try that, too.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Nov 7, 2008 at 11:18 am

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  Yes, via the blog URL (also via categories or archives) you see the excerpt, via the post URL the entire post. With the nextpage tag, however, in both cases you see the first page only.