Read more tag issue

chameleonscales · Member · May 18, 2016 at 11:18 pm
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Hi, I read your ‘More tag’ support page : https://en.support.wordpress.com/more-tag/
but I still can’t make it work. The text appears just like it would without the more tag. I tried it with multiple WordPress themes (Twenty ten, Orvis, Rebalance, harmonic, Sketch) and got the same result.
Here’s an example : https://caetanoveyssieres.wordpress.com/development/
AT the bottom of the page, the text goes like this :
Yada yada this is a test. <!–more–> hello what’s going on?
I’m trying to add a read more button

Thanks for your help

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siobhyb · Member · May 20, 2016 at 6:04 pm
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Hi @gamnamno: The read more link generated by the tag won’t be displayed on individual pages or posts themselves. It’ll instead by displayed anywhere that references the page or post. For example: in emails or a blog page that lists all of your posts.

Let me know if that helps to clarify how the read more tag works or if you have any extra questions.
chameleonscales · Member · May 21, 2016 at 12:30 pm
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Thanks, I thought it would be like a drop down text that would show up when you click on “read more”.
So instead it should be put on posts so that the page that displays posts puts the excerpts with a “read more” link. But why can we put a “read more” tag on a regular page ? How can it be used there ?
siobhyb · Member · May 22, 2016 at 5:20 pm
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Hi there,

The read more tag is useful in cases where a theme features pages on its home page, like Edin for example. You’re right that it’s most commonly used with posts though.

The effect that you’re trying to create could be created with some HTML, specifically the details tag. You can read some information about this tag here:

The details and summary elements

An example:
```
<details>
  <summary>Text you see before expansion.</summary>
  <p>Text you see after expansion.</p>
</details>
```
Please note, the tag is still fairly new and won’t currently work with Internet Explorer. Those viewing your site in that browser will see all of the text, without the option to expand.

Hope that information’s helpful!
chameleonscales · Member · May 22, 2016 at 9:21 pm
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Cool ! But WordPress.com isn’t in html5, is it ?
siobhyb · Member · May 23, 2016 at 9:51 am
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Hi there,

The theme you have active is using HTML5 and WordPress.com itself is built using the latest web technologies. :) Some browsers, however, do not support all HTML5 elements just yet.
chameleonscales · Member · May 23, 2016 at 10:51 am
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Wait, is it normal that firefox doesn’t support that (I checked and I have the latest version : 46.0.1) while chrome does ?
siobhyb · Member · May 24, 2016 at 8:40 am
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Hi there,

I did a bit of digging and found that support for the details tag is currently planned for Firefox 49:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591737#c275

The current release of Firefox is 46, and Firefox 49 is scheduled for mid-September.
chameleonscales · Member · May 24, 2016 at 11:30 am
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oh, okay ! I couldn’t hope for more help. Thanks a lot !
siobhyb · Member · May 25, 2016 at 7:22 am
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You’re most welcome! Feel free to open another thread if anything else comes up, too. :)

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