More Tag Not Displaying

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  garlandtechnology · Member · Mar 1, 2013 at 8:12 pm

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  Hi, I’m having some trouble implementing the “More” tag. When I insert the tag in a post, it will successfully truncate the post at the appropriate spot, but no “Read More” link appears. The text syntax of the tag I’m using is <!–more–>. I’m using the “Origin” theme.

  I have a feeling I’m missing something really simple, but haven’t been able to figure it out. Any help out be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you!

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 1, 2013 at 8:22 pm

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  That’s your theme. For whatever reason, that’s how it’s built. Try a different one.

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  garlandtechnology · Member · Mar 1, 2013 at 8:52 pm

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  I see. Is there any way to see the functionality of the themes without trying each one?

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Mar 1, 2013 at 11:24 pm

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  Very few themes display excerpts only on the front page. Inuit Types and Fresh and Clean and Origin come to mind as ones that do. There are live demos site for all themes. You will find them here > http://theme.wordpress.com/

  Keep the theme and use a workaround.
  Not all blog themes are designed to display full posts on the front page of the blog. Please read the theme description here > http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/origin/

  The Origin theme is behaving exactly the way it is designed to behave, which is excerpts only on the front page of the blog but Origin does have an active excerpt box below the post editor, so you can control the length of the excerpt displayed. This is the workaround you can use to override excerpt display on the front page.

  You compose your whole post first and before you publish it you switch to the HTML (Text) editor, copy the code, paste it into the Excerpt box, and publish the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/#creating-excerpts
  This will have to be done on every post.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Mar 1, 2013 at 11:27 pm

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  Or you compose your whole post first and before you publish it you switch to the HTML (Text) editor, copy the only the code for the excerpt your want to be displayed on the front page, paste it into the Excerpt box, and publish the post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/excerpts/#creating-excerpts
  This will have to be done on every post.

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  justpi · Member · Mar 2, 2013 at 4:50 am

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  @garlandtechnology:
  a) As raincoaster said, that’s the way the theme is designed: it displays excerpts on the main page, without a read-more link.
  b) Auto excerpts display the first 55 words of the post, followed by this:
  […]
  c) “When I insert the tag in a post, it will successfully truncate the post at the appropriate spot”. That’s not exactly correct: the more tag will work only if you insert it before the 55-word limit.
  d) If you wish to display an excerpt other than the first 55 words, you add the content in the Excerpt module of the post editor. You can write whatever you like in it and end it with the “[…]” to make it look like the auto excerpts, or you can include a link to the post to make it look like the more tag. I wouldn’t do the latter, because the post title is already a link to the single post view.
  Note: if you’re not seeing the Excerpt module while on the post editor screen, click Screen Options (top right) to activate it.

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  garlandtechnology · Member · Mar 3, 2013 at 8:05 pm

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  Thank you for the responses, following the advice given I was able to make my own “More…” links using HTML code in the Excerpts. Thanks again.

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  garlandtechnology · Member · Mar 3, 2013 at 8:06 pm

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  Thank you for the responses, following the advice given I was able to make my own “More…” links using HTML code in the Excerpts. Thanks again.