More link not showing on pageofposts pages

Hi

You have to add a few lines of code to include the more functionality in the wp_query code

See if you can follow this code. I marked the lines to add with “<—- add”

using the more tag on a page or in the sidebar

<?php
global $more;   <---- add
$about = new WP_Query();
$about->query('pagename=about'); // for post use  'name={slug}'
while ($about->have_posts()) : $about->the_post();
   $more = false; <--- add  // set $more to false to only get the first part of the post ?>
   <p><?php the_content('Read the rest...'); ?></p>
<?php endwhile;
$more = true;  <---- add  // restore default $more behavior
?>

Hey stvwlf,

Thank you for replying and showing the code to use but your code differs from the code shown in the Codex template I am using, therefore I don’t know how to combine yours with it.

Here is the top section of code I am using. Just the top portion of it that I think you needed to reference if you wish to help me further.

<?php

/*
Template Name: PageOfPosts
*/

get_header(); ?>

  <div id="container">
    <div id="content">
      <?php
      // Page id 53 will get category ID 3 posts, page 55 will get category 10 posts and so on.
      if (is_page('53') ) {
      $cat = array(3,45,46,47,48,49,50,51);
      } elseif ( is_page('55') ) {
      $cat = array(10,40,15,41,42);
      } elseif ( is_page('57') ) {
      $cat = array(43,44);
      } else {
      $cat = '';
      }
      $showposts = -1; // -1 Shows all posts.
      $do_not_show_stickies = 1; // 0 to Show stickies.
      $args=array(
         'category__in' => $cat,
         'showposts' => $showposts,
         'caller_get_posts' => $do_not_show_stickies
         );
      $my_query = new WP_Query($args);
      global $more;
      // Set $more to 0 in order to only get the first part of the post.
      $more = 1;
      ?>

      <?php if( $my_query->have_posts() ) : ?>
        <?php while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
          <?php
          //necessary to show the tags
          global $wp_query;
          $wp_query->in_the_loop = true;
          ?>
          <div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
            <!-- Display the post title in an h2 header. -->
            <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

            <div class="entry-meta">
            <!-- I REMOVED THIS FOR BREVITY IN SHOWING YOU THE CODE -->
            </div><!-- .entry-meta -->

            <div class="entry-content">
              <?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&raquo;</span>', 'My-Framework' )  ); ?>
              <?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'My-Framework' ) . '&after=</div>') ?>
            </div><!-- .entry-content -->

NOTES: I already had the global $more added since I saw that in another post somewhere but they didn’t show how to use it, so for me – adding it did nothing.

You show additional code on how to actually use it but I don’t know how to integrate it into my current code. Could you help me some more please?

The code I added and saw from another post somewhere is:

global $more;
// Set $more to 0 in order to only get the first part of the post.
$more = 1;

You should be able to find it in the first code block I showed you.

Much aprpeciated stvwlf.

Thank you.

Nevermind stvwlf,

I got it worked out thank you very much indeed!

I got it to work using:

<?php $more = false; ?> before the <?php the_content() ?> line
and
<?php endwhile; $more = true; ?> at the end of the loop

and I went ahead and removed the code I saw from a previous post:

// Set $more to 0 in order to only get the first part of the post.
$more = 1;

I am indeed gratful for your help. It has been bugging me for a long time now not being able to get the <!-- more --> link to work.

Getting it to work finally will help me a bit with the duplicate content issue we face.

Thanks again.

hi

just so you know, in PHP $more = 1 and $more = true mean the identical thing.

$more = 0 and $more = false mean the identical thing

glad you got it working

Huge thanks for this stvwlf – works like a charm ??