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Started 2 years ago by ollie
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ollie
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Hi, I'm setting up my blog using the latest version of Thematic and the 'More' tag works fine on the front page but is replaced with an elipsis in square brackets [...] on the categor and archive pages. The issue is the same whether I use the default theme or my own child theme.

I've tried using the global more tag code (<?php global $more;?>) and this allows me to toggle between showing or hiding the elipsis but I can't get the "Read More..." link to show.

This has been frustrating me for a while now so any help would be hugely appreciated.

Many thanks

Ollie

Posted 2 years ago #

tarpontech
Member

I think this is what you're looking for.

Sticking this in your functions.php will change the more link everywhere.

//Make new excerpt Link
function change_excerpt($content) {
	$content = str_replace('[...]','...',$content); // remove [...], replace with ...
	$content = strip_tags($content); // remove HTML
	return $content;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt','change_excerpt');

Posted 2 years ago #

ollie
Member

Hi Tarpontech,

Many thanks for your reply. I've added the code into my functions.php but still no joy unfortunately.

My site address is http://www.olliemor.com/

Any chance you could take a look and see if there's something obvious that I'm missing please?

Thanks again, Ollie

Posted 2 years ago #
tarpontech
Member

just realized I gave you the wrong function...that was used for a very specific issue...doh!

Here, this post appears to be the holy grail of what you're looking to do...found it very helpful myself..

http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/noob-customize-read-more-quicktaghow#post-8140

Posted 2 years ago #
ollie
Member

Thanks Tarpontech, I'm halfway there now! I've got a 'PageOfPosts' template set up and it has worked on this page and changed the [...] to 'Read More >' but the archive and category pages are still not showing it.

As they stand presently, the category page only shows an excerpt without the elipsis, is there a way to enable this?

Posted 2 years ago #
tarpontech
Member

well, don't know as much about it as I think I do, but shooting from the hip, i'm guessing this is going to take adding the "read more" to the end of the excerpt for these pages via a filter either on the loop itself or just on the excerpt. This is going to take digging into the /thematic/library/extensions/content_extensions.php to see how the read more is added on to the full text so that we can recreate it on the thematic excerpt. Until a ninja shows up to just whip out some code on ya...its going to be a little project. Good news is, between that forum link above, and a few forum searches on "excerpt" should turn up the likely suspects you need to fight with.

Posted 2 years ago #
ollie
Member
Cracked it!!! :oD Thanks so much for your help on this Tarpontech, the pointer towards content_extensions.php was just what I needed!

Here's what I did:

1. Read through 'content_extensions.php' until I found the '//creates the content' section on line 476. This section specifies how posts should be displayed depending on the page being shown, it can be either 'full' or 'excerpt'. I changed all the page types to 'full' as follows:
```
//creates the content
function thematic_content() {

	if (is_home() || is_front_page()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_single()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_tag()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_search()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_category()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_author()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_archive()) {
		$content = 'full';
	}
```
I know I could leave some of them as excerpt but I went for the blanket approach to test the theory.

Now all of my category and archive pages show the post and a 'Read More >' link.

I also have a 'Page of Posts' page which is based on a custom template that I found. The more tag doesn't work on it by default but can be enabled by adding the following code in before <?php the_content() ?>

<?php $more = false; ?>

Thanks again Tarpontech, couldn't have done it without your help!

Ollie
Posted 2 years ago #
tarpontech
Member
well...the code-monkey's on here are going to yell at us for doing it that way...

The problem you face is if/when you upgrade thematic, it's going to break your customization.

The good news is, if this is all you wanted...i didn't realize...

I just posted a filter you can cut-n-paste into you childtheme's functions.php to make this happen. Here, revert your changes inside content_extensions.php and use this instead, does the same thing, just future-proofs your theme:
```
function childtheme_content($content) {
if (is_home() || is_front_page()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_single()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_tag()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_search()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_category()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_author()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_archive()) {
		$content = 'full';
	}
return $content;
}

add_filter('thematic_content', 'childtheme_content');
```
Posted 2 years ago #
tarpontech
Member
well...the code-monkey's on here are going to yell at us for doing it that way...

The problem you face is if/when you upgrade thematic, it's going to break your customization.

The good news is, if this is all you wanted...i didn't realize...

I just posted a filter you can cut-n-paste into you childtheme's functions.php to make this happen. Here, revert your changes inside content_extensions.php and use this instead, does the same thing, just future-proofs your theme:
```
function childtheme_content($content) {
if (is_home() || is_front_page()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_single()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_tag()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_search()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_category()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_author()) {
		$content = 'full';
	} elseif (is_archive()) {
		$content = 'full';
	}
return $content;
}

add_filter('thematic_content', 'childtheme_content');
```
Posted 2 years ago #
Chris
Moderator
Hi,

be careful, the silverback might be right behind you ;)

You don't need to include all these conditional tags, if you want to switch everything to full content:
```
function childtheme_content($content) {
    return 'full';
}

add_filter('thematic_content', 'childtheme_content');
```
Chris
Posted 2 years ago #
ollie
Member

Thanks guys, I've updated my functions.php and reverted content_extensions.php as suggested and all is well! :o)

Thanks again

Ollie

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