"Read More" tag on Static Pages in Grid Format
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I’m attempting to use the grid format on http://www.a360s.com with parent and child pages. I cannot get the “read more” tag to work on a child page. The complete text of the child page flows onto the parent page above the “read more” button. What is the use of the “read more” button on the grid layout if the whole text fills the space? Why won’t the tag work so that I can have a brief intro before the “read more” button?
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Hi Bill,
Could you give me an example of where this isn’t working as you’d like it to? I took a look at your site and wasn’t able to really understand what you meant. If you could direct me to specific URLs which aren’t pulling up how you intended them to, hopefully I’ll be able to help!
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Hi amightywp.
Thanks for responding. Here is a sample URL. You’ll notice I had to use pagination because the “read more” tag wouldn’t work. When I tried to use that text, the whole content of the page flowed onto the parent page above the “read more” button rather than an excerpt.
Hope you can help. I find the pagination usage here a bit awkward for users.
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Forgot to provide the URL. Here ya go: http://a360s.com/welcome-to-a360s/2015-live-webinars/
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Hiya Bill,
Sorry this took a bit to get back to you.
It took me a bit of thinking my way around this because I had never seen anyone trying to use the “More” tag on a page before and it finally struck me that the reason why was because the More tag only really works for posts.
The reason for this is because where the More tag really works is when you are on a blog’s feed and you see all of a blog’s posts in a row. The more tag allows the author to limit a post to just display an excerpt of that post. When you view the post individually, you never see the More tag. You see the entirety of the post itself.
At no point do pages show in the same way as the post feed. They are never listed one after another, so the More tag doesn’t work for pages.
If you would like to get something similar, you still can, though you’ll need to hand-code it similar to what you have now.
You can create a page called “2015-live-webinars” which has your excerpt as usual, but manually add a link which goes to the full page:
Four live webinars are scheduled for 2015 addressing topics critical to successful audience growth and circulation leadership.
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Hi amightywp.
I guess I’m not doing a good job of explaining myself. I simply want my site, in grid layout on Goran theme to work the same way the sample does in the theme gallery. The whole concept of the grid layout is to show on a parent page, for the child pages, an image, an excerpt from the page, and then the “read more” button to click on to read the rest of the page. It works on the sample in the gallery, but I can’t make it work in reality. Instead of showing an excerpt between the image and read more button on the parent page, it flows the whole content of the child page pushing the “read more” button way down the page.
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OK! What was done on the demo page was to create a second level which was the exact same as the top level.
A parent page with just a short description is made which has the grid template. You already have one of those, that is your front page called “Welcome to a360s.”
If you’d like to create a second level of those, you set up a child page of that front page to also have the grid template. That page will in turn also have children pages, which will then by nature have the “Read More” button.
Does that make sense?
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