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excerpt vs. read more

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gzq5x6
Member

Hello Guys

First of all great job on these awesome themes, and great support. I just bought another theme. Will probably post some new questions though :)

I had a question on the newscast theme.

When i post an article, I have the option to put text into the "excerpt" which will be used into the "News Slideshow" on the top.

I noticed however, this excerpt is also used on the post (on the main page) as the first text of the article. The "Read More" I added in my post is completely ignored. How can I change this?

Let me make an example to clarify:

1. Post title: Obama wins election
2. Article content: Obama wins the US election and will be president of the USA another 4 years. The election promised to be a close one. In the last days, Mitt Romney fired from all sides ...<---Read More-->
3. Excerpt: Obama wins the US election and will be president of the USA another 4 years.

News Slider shows 1 + 3 (perfect)
The Post appearans on frontpage as: 1+3 (ignoring my text until the ...<---Read More--> tag i added in my post. It should show as 1+2.

Any idea? I guess this may have been asked before, altough I couldn't find it here.

Posted 7 months ago #

Dude
Dude

Hey!

Open up index.php and replace following code:

<div class="entry-text">
					<?php the_excerpt() ?>
				</div>

with:

<div class="entry-text">
					<?php the_content(''); ?>
				</div>

Regards,
Peter

Posted 7 months ago #

gzq5x6
Member

Great. Thansk, dude =)
Seems to be working. Let me modify my posts, so I can confirm this works like a charm..

Posted 7 months ago #
Dude
Dude

Hey!

I hope it worked?

Best regards,
Peter

Posted 7 months ago #
gzq5x6
Member

Looks like it. But I have to go trough all the articles first and put a read more if I activate it. Otherwise the whole text is posted on the first page. Will need some time... thhx

Posted 7 months ago #
Devin
Moderator

Yep, that is the trade off of excerpt vs read more. There isn't a perfect solution but I personally like using the read more tag as it gives in context control and I don't feel like I have to re-write part of the post or anything.

Regards,

Devin

Posted 7 months ago #