not a support questionI have custom templates created for a few pages. These are set up to have a featured slider, followed by a text box, followed by a blog which draws from one category only. When I go to the page the blog will show all the posts in their full length - ignoring the read more tag I have placed after a couple of sentences.
How can I get the read more tag to work on these blogs within pages?
Thanks!
Hey,
The Template Builder blog section should respect the More tag and only display the content you want it to.
Can you post the URL for the page having the problem so we can see the code 1st hand?
James
James,
Any of the menu links in the main navigation (which link to pages) will show this - for example: http://www.biospablog.com/wellness-menu
All of the blog posts are displayed in their entirety, ignoring the read more tag.
When I originally had the main navigation link to a category instead of a page, the read more tag worked.
Hey,
a)
1) Make a copy of loop-index.php (located in the folder "includes")
2) Call the copy loop-indexcustom.php
3) In loop-indexcustom.php change following code:
the_content(__('Read more','avia_framework')); ?>to:
the_excerpt();
echo "<a href='".get_permalink()."' class='more-link'>Read more</a>";
?>4) In includes\helper-templates.php replace:
echo "<div class='template-blog content'>";
get_template_part('includes/loop','index');with:
echo "<div class='template-blog content'>";
get_template_part('includes/loop','indexcustom');Dude,
The line: the_content(__('Read more','avia_framework')); ?> in my copy of loop-index.php looks different.
Mine reads: <?php the_content('<span class="inner_more">'.__('Read more','avia_framework').'</span>'); ?>
Is this the line I should replace with:
the_excerpt();
echo "Read more";
?>
I did the above, however it's doing something other than what I want.
It shows the first five lines of the post, but ignoring the POSITION of the read more tag. In other words when you click on the blog post, I have an H3 subtitle then an icon shortcode then the Read More tag followed by the blog post body.
The code above is simply taking the first five lines of the body, ignoring the placement of the Read More tag.
The Read More button is also looking off...
You can see this here: http://www.biospablog.com/beauty-menu
Any thoughts? It should be showing the H3 title and icon shortcode only if the Read More tag is working properly...
Thanks!
If you want to control the excerpt length the standard code:
<?php the_content('<span class="inner_more">'.__('Read more','avia_framework').'</span>'); ?>already does what you want. Very likely the problem is the html filter wordpress applies to excerpts. The filter strips out html tags to prevent formatting and display errors. Plugins like: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/ help you to style the excerpt.
ToxMox
Member
I have the same problem where on pages where I'm using a template from the template builder where I have added a blog element. The posts all show the entire post instead of honoring the <!--more--> tag. The regular blog page works fine and honors the <!--more--> tag.
ToxMox
Member
Ok I actually just solved this myself. The includes/helper-templates.php file is missing the $more variable declaration and a $more = 0; in the blog function.
Replace:
function blog($element)
{
extract($element['saved_value'][0]);
global $avia_config;with:
function blog($element)
{
extract($element['saved_value'][0]);
global $avia_config, $more;And replace:
echo "<div class='template-blog content'>";
get_template_part('includes/loop','index');
with this:
echo "<div class='template-blog content'>";
$more = 0;
get_template_part( 'includes/loop', 'index' );
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