the “<!–more–>” code

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  nelnell · Member · Aug 30, 2008 at 10:14 am

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  A few of my friends with blogs use the “<!–more–>” code in their posts when they want to only put up a paragraph of their post on the main page. You then click on more and it opens the full post in a new window.

  I tried using it and it didn’t work.

  It just appears in the middle of the full post with a “-” missing from each side.

  I tested it with a new post and it still didn’t work.
  Is is maybe my theme thats conflicting with it? The one friend is on . com and the other on .org, and on different themes and it works for them.

  Thanks, Janel

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  raincoaster · Member · Aug 30, 2008 at 10:22 am

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  It works just fine; the thing is, if you’re looking right at the post, you don’t see it, because you’re already looking at the post wit the More. You only see the break on the main blog page.

  And you have to put that code in the CODE or HTML editor, not the visual editor. If you want to use the visual editor, you click Icon 13, the dotted line icon. Be sure to close all tags before you do that; if you put that split in between an opening tag and a closing one, it messes up your whole blog.

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  nelnell · Member · Sep 1, 2008 at 5:08 pm

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  Thanks so much!

  Works perfectly now. I was editing in the visual mode as you thought.