Read More not working

brainvain · Member · May 15, 2013 at 6:35 pm
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The read more tag is not working or displaying. Can someone help?

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brainvain · Member · May 15, 2013 at 6:43 pm
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Can someone please help?
timethief · Member · May 15, 2013 at 6:48 pm
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[…] is a read more tag and I do see that it’s not working on your blog. Did you create this post http://brainvain.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/85/ one your own blog’s dashboard at http://brainvain.wordpress.com/wp-admin? Or did you create it here http://wordpress.com/#!/post/
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brainvain · Member · May 15, 2013 at 6:52 pm
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Thank you for responding! I created the both posts with http://brainvain.wordpress.com/wp-admin/
timethief · Member · May 15, 2013 at 7:05 pm
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You’re welcome. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when Staff respond and please be patient while waiting.
justpi · Member · May 15, 2013 at 7:09 pm
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Where you created the posts is irrelevant. The read-more tag works as expected on themes that normally display full posts on the main posts page. But Origin displays excerpts. An auto excerpt on Origin shows the first 55 words of the post. If you insert the read-more tag before that limit, the remaining words won’t show; if you insert it after that limit, then naturally it has no effect. If you want more than 55 words on the front page, you need to create your own custom excerpt in the Excerpt module of the post editor.
timethief · Member · May 15, 2013 at 7:10 pm
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Jus wondering out loud. Did you notice the URL?

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timethief · Member · May 15, 2013 at 7:11 pm
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Have you imported content into the blog in question?
justpi · Member · May 15, 2013 at 7:15 pm
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The number at the end means that brainvain started with the content of the post, and added the title after the permalink had been formed.
timethief · Member · May 15, 2013 at 7:17 pm
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@justpi
Thanks for explaining that to me. I appreciate it.
brainvain · Member · May 15, 2013 at 8:14 pm
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Thanks justpi! But do you know if I can possibly get rid of the auto excerpt?
brainvain · Member · May 15, 2013 at 8:15 pm
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Thank you both :)
timethief · Member · May 15, 2013 at 8:18 pm
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1. Switch themes
2. 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.
brainvain · Member · May 15, 2013 at 8:24 pm
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Thank you :) you have been so helpful to me!
timethief · Member · May 15, 2013 at 8:25 pm
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You’re welcome. :)

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