any help for excerpts?

  • Ive read a few different ways to make the excerpts work, and ive had it work, but ive still been unable to make the (more…) links appear..
    id like only posts i specify to have an excerpt, show one, but also a (more..) link.
    basically as its stated in this post
    i got that work work, but i added my own (more…) link in the excerpt. but, turns outonly the excerpt is showing, not the whole post.
    is there anything i can do?
    ive tried the plugin and a couple hacks

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  • Thread Starter Anonymous

    Please can you post your blog homepage?

    I’d be very interested in an answer, too.
    I’ve just started using WordPress, and this is one thing I *must* be able to do.
    Is there something I need to add somewhere to allow &lt!–more–&rt to work?

    jbnimble – yes… in the post, where you want it to appear.
    Additionaly, the excerpt for a post will only display IF the_excerpt() has been used in the index.php file. BUT it doesn’t display the &lt!–more–> link, just what’s been designated as the excerpt for the post.
    The directions listed in the post linked to above shows how to get the excertp shown. There would need to be some additional code needed in order to get the more link to show as well.
    The simplest way is to use the <!–more–> tag in the post where you want the cut off to begin.
    TG

    Hrmm…
    Thanks for the response, TG.
    I can add the excerpt as per the above link. Is there any instructions you can point me toward to help me add the more link to show in the excerpt?
    As far as in the content tag… I add the &lt!–more–> tag in the post, but it doesn’t show. Rather, the whole post continues to appear. Is there something else I should have to do, or should simply the tag at that point in the post do the trick?
    (Sorry to be so dense about this. I have been searching on the support pages. Just feel stuck.)

    Well….. it’s supposed to “just work” that way. As long as you use the_content() in your index.php file the more tag is suppsed to work. The only time it should be displaying the entire post is when the user clicks the permalink to goto the full post.
    1) What version of WP are you using for starters?
    2) Can you save your index.php file as a text file and provide a link to it? Maybe if we can see what’s going on, someone may be able to provide a better solution to the problem.
    TG

    1.2.1, apparently… (A friend installed it for me on his site so that I could give this a whirl…)
    And now… for some bizarre reason, the thing works just fine. I swear I was doing the same thing… I thought… odd…
    Thanks for your patience…
    Any advice for how to add more to the excerpt?

    Hi.. my url is here
    im going to finish reading these posts and try some more..

    Well. the excerpt shows and not the continued link….
    here is my index file
    <?php
    /* Don’t remove this line. */
    require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
    ?>
    <html>
    <head>
    <title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
    <link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”https://inutile.superihost.com/fav.ico”&gt;
    <LINK REL=”stylesheet” HREF=”stb17_style.css” TYPE=”text/css”>
    <link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?>” />
    <?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly&format=link’); ?>
    <?php //comments_popup_script(); // off by default ?>
    <?php wp_head(); ?>
    </head>
    <body bgcolor=”#5B3131″ text=”#000000″>
    <div align=”center”>
    <table bgcolor=”#000000″ width=”736″ height=”100%” cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ border=”0″>
    <tr>
    <td valign=”top”> <img src=”stb17_head1.jpg” width=”368″ height=”289″ border=”0″ alt=””></td>
    <td valign=”top”> <img src=”stb17_head2.jpg” width=”368″ height=”289″ border=”0″ alt=””></td>
    </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
    <td valign=”top” colspan=”2″>
    <table align=”center” width=”98%” cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”14″ border=”0″>
    <tr>
    <td align=”center” valign=”top”>
    <BR><BR>
    <?php if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
    <div class=”blogheader” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”><?php the_time(“l – F j, Y @ g:i a”) ?>   <?php edit_post_link(); ?> <?php comments_popup_link(__(‘comments (0)’), __(‘comments (1)’), __(‘comments (%)’)); ?><div align=”right”>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?>
    </div>
    </div>
    <?php if (get_the_excerpt(false)) the_excerpt();
    else the_content();
    ?>
    <BR><BR>
    <div class=”comments”>
    <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
    </div>
    <!–
    <?php trackback_rdf(); ?>
    –>
    <?php include(ABSPATH . ‘wp-comments.php’); ?>
    <br>
    <?php endforeach; else: ?>
    <?php _e(‘Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
    </td>
    <td width=”200″ align=”center” valign=”top”><br><br><br>
    <div class=”title”>
    Content
    </div>
    <div class=”side”>
    <p class=”side”>
    <?php include (“content.php”); ?>
    </div>
    <br><br><br>
    <div class=”title”>
    Archives
    </div>
    <div class=”side”>
    <p class=”calendar”>
    <center>
    <?php get_calendar(); ?>
    <BR>
    <div align=”left”>
    <BR>
    <center><b><font color=”#000000″ size=”1″><u>Month-By-Month</u></b></font></center>
    <?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?>
    <BR>
    <center><b><font color=”#000000″ size=”1″><u>Post-By-Post</u></b></font></center>
    <?php wp_get_archives(‘type=postbypost’); ?>
    </div>
    <BR>
    <form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>”>
    <div>
    <input type=”text” name=”s” id=”s” size=”15″ />
    <input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”<?php _e(‘Search’); ?>” />
    </div>
    </form>
    </center>
    </div>
    <br><br><br>
    <div class=”title”>
    This Month
    </div>
    <div class=”side”>
    <p class=”side”>
    <center>
    <?php include (“thismonth.php”); ?>
    </center>
    </div>
    <br><br><br>
    <div class=”title”>
    Me
    </div>
    <div class=”side”>
    <p class=”side”>
    <?php include (“me.php”); ?>
    </div>
    <br><br><br>
    <div class=”title”>
    Desktop Cam
    </div>
    <div class=”side”>
    <p class=”side”>
    <?php include (“desktop.php”); ?>
    </div>
    <br><br><br>
    <div class=”title”>
    Visitors
    </div>
    <div class=”side”>
    <p class=”side”>
    <?php include (“now.php”); ?>
    </div>
    <br><br><br>
    <div class=”title”>
    Joined
    </div>
    <div class=”side”>
    <p class=”side”>
    <?php include (“joined.php”); ?>
    </div>
    <br><br><br>
    <div class=”title”>
    Ask a Q
    </div>
    <div class=”side”>
    <p class=”side”>
    <?php include (“misc.php”); ?>
    </div>
    <br><br><br>
    <div class=”title”>
    Links
    </div>
    <div class=”side”>
    <p class=”side”>
    <?php include (“links2.php”); ?>
    </div>
    <br><br><br>
    <div class=”title”>
    Plug
    </div>
    <div class=”side”>
    <center>
    <? include “plug/plug.php”; ?>
    </center>
    </div>
    <br><br><br>
    </td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </div>
    </body>
    </html>

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