teaser before password protecting a post/page

sulz · Member · Jul 12, 2006 at 11:25 pm
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is it possible to leave a teaser before password protect a post or a page? i’ve seen in done in a wordpress-installed blog so i don’t think it’s possible in a wordpress.com blog, but i’d like to make sure
drmike · Member · Jul 12, 2006 at 11:34 pm
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I’m running for my bus but in 2 seconds so i can’t check but what about the Optional Except along the bottom of the Write Post page? Can’t remember if that’s what that is for.
sulz · Member · Jul 13, 2006 at 12:22 am
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oh so that’s what that’s for… i shall check it out, thanks. hope you made it in time for your bus!
sulz · Member · Jul 13, 2006 at 1:47 am
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sadly, thr’s no optional excerpts for pages – so how? anything else i can do?
timethief · Member · Jul 13, 2006 at 5:37 am
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@sulz – excuse me for saying DUH but I don’t know what is meant by a “teaser”.
sulz · Member · Jul 13, 2006 at 6:39 am
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eh, i thought i should be saying duh and you should be saying uh? … but i digress.

teaser is a that little paragraph one writes before proceeding to the real article, like how a blogger would do before clicking the more button in the write post page, then writing some more.

… DUH! =P
drmike · Member · Jul 13, 2006 at 2:08 pm
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Instead of seeing “This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below”, you would see the Optional Except.

By the way, did that work? I still haven’t had a chance to try it.
sulz · Member · Jul 13, 2006 at 3:36 pm
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optional excerpts are thr for posts but not pages… so if i want to put a teaser in a page, how?
wrathchild · Member · Jul 13, 2006 at 4:33 pm
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Create two pages. One for your teaser text, which then links to your password-protected page.
drmike · Member · Jul 13, 2006 at 6:12 pm
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Make the second one Private as well so it doesn’t show up in the Page Lists.
sulz · Member · Jul 13, 2006 at 11:24 pm
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great ideas! thanks wrathchild and drmike
ashan · Member · Aug 12, 2006 at 8:13 pm
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I tried the “optional excerpt” method, but it doesn’t seem to work. Has anyone else managed to do this?
sulz · Member · Aug 13, 2006 at 1:50 am
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why use the optional excerpt when you can use the more tag when writing posts? but yea i don’t really know what’s the op. ex for anyway
timethief · Member · Aug 13, 2006 at 3:34 am
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@sulz
This is just to let you know that the “more” tag has a bug. If you use it the feed readers stop reading when they hit the tag. So if you have your own blogs on the feed reader account to creat a back-up you’re hooped. It has been reported and is being worked on.
sulz · Member · Aug 13, 2006 at 4:32 am
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but i’ve set my feeds to not show the full posts, so that’s fine by me anyway. i like it better if my feed readers read it from my blog so they get to read the sidebar as well – you never know what might interest them there.
ashan · Member · Aug 23, 2006 at 3:44 pm
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What I meant was actually that I had tried using the “Optional Excerpt” method to place a teaser for my password-protected post, but it didn’t work. The “more…” tag doesn’t do anything for that either.
drmike · Member · Aug 23, 2006 at 4:28 pm
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Best bet would be to raise the issue via a feedback with a pointer to this thread so that staff notices the point has been raised.
mysticwolfpress · Member · Oct 30, 2006 at 7:12 pm
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What has to be done to get the ‘Optional Excerpt’ to work?

No matter what I put in the box it doesn’t show up in the page.
mysticwolfpress · Member · Oct 30, 2006 at 7:15 pm
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Why do you guys list these posts as “Resolved” when the solutions posted here don’t work? Just wondering.
podz · Member · Oct 30, 2006 at 7:26 pm
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I’ve edited the above two posts – sigs are not used in the forums. Thanks.

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