MORE TAG / IBlogPro

[heels2 0]

Hi, how can we use the <--more--> TAG on postings on the front page. The tag is inserted to the post but will not be used. You can check out at www.heels2.com/screenshot_heels2.jpg (yellow box - red text) in the middle. We want that the users will get only a few rows of text and maybe a picture (depending on the situation) and if he clicks on the posting the full text. Thank you for your assistance

[axolotl 0]

there's an inbuilt option that allows you to "Show only excerpts & thumbs on front page instead of full posts". go to iBlogPro Options -> Pages and Posts

[oliversommerliveloungede 0]

Hi, I have exacly the same problem, but cannot find the Option in my configuration. Have you changed something regarding this in the current iBlogPro version? Cheers, Oliver

[bryan-hadaway 3]

I think you want to choose to show the full content, not excerpt... then if you have the `` in place in the actual posts it will cut it off where you want it to. Thanks, Bryan

[oliversommerliveloungede 0]

Hi Bryan, that exacly is my problem. I cannot set it to show full content here and then use the

<!--more-->

tag. Also the behavior of showing content is different if I use the specific excerpt field or if I use the normal content way. If I leave the excerpt filed empty and use the standart way, a vimeo video is not displayed. If I copy exacly the same into the excerpt field, it is displayed on the excerpt page. Any ideas, how I can use the

<!--more-->

tag and can achive to show the content up until the area where I like ot to show including videos to be shown on the excertp page? Thanks for your help, Oliver

[Kate 3]

@Oliver Regarding your other question (a couple up), you can find the option in "Settings->Posts and Pages". Does the info there help? If not, we can address your second question about the more tag.

[oliversommerliveloungede 0]

Hi Kate, that is exactly my problem. I do not find this option. Can you please show me what I have to do. Here is a screenshot of my backend. http://www.itechpro.de/backend.png Thanks, Oliver

[bryan-hadaway 3]

Okay, I'm looking at one of your category pages here: http://www.itechpro.de/category/tech/ Is there an actual main blog section or no? The problem I have is that you say you can't use `` ? Does this mean you literally cannot paste it into posts, which can't be done in visual editing mode by the way unless you use the "More" tab in your editing toolbar... or do you mean it simply does not work or has an unintended effect? Thanks, Bryan

[oliversommerliveloungede 0]

Hi Bryan, sorry, I do not know what it means "is there an actual main blog section or no". I do not use the visual editor at all, I always use HTML So the situation is as follows I made all three examples on that page: http://www.itechpro.de/category/tech/ 1st - Without using excerpt field and no

<!--more-->

tag. Behaviour: - Text is cut off randomly - video is not displayed (even if sublines of vimeo video player are displayed) - link "Continue reading" is not displayed also not on archive and tag page 2nd - Without using excerpt field and with

<!--more-->

tag in content Behaviour: - Text is cut of on the correct line, but video is not displayed (even if sublines of vimeo video player are displayed) - link "Continue reading" is not displayed - on the tag and archive page the link "Continue reading" is displayed correctly 3rd - With using excerpt field and without

<!--more-->

tag Behaviour: - text is cut off correctly - video is displayed - link "Continue reading" is not displayed - on achive page content is displayed twice http://www.itechpro.de/2010/12/ What I like to achieve is the following: - Use the more tag in HTML code - Cut of text for excerpt on the wished line - diplay the video if

<!--more-->

tag is used after the video - show "Continue reading" link always below the exerpt. - do not have duplicate content on the "archive" and "tag" pageshttp://www.itechpro.de/tag/google/ I hope this explaines my problem well enough and you understand my problem. Can you please have a look to the examples and tell me what to do. Thank you Oliver

[oliversommerliveloungede 0]

One addition the search screen has the same behavior as the categoriy excerpt overview http://www.itechpro.de/?s=google is the same as http://www.itechpro.de/category/tech/

[Kate 3]

@Oliver Okay... I tried it out, and this is what I found: Under "Settings->Pages and Posts", choose these settings: "Post Excerpt Placement" - Select "Don't Show" "Full Post Content Placement" - Select "Show full content on all blog pages" By using this along with the

<!--more-->

tag, you'll get the desired effect on the blog pages. However, I noticed that it won't work on the category pages. I believe this is due to the way the theme itself was setup. However, I think we can get that working for you too. I'm just going to play with it and I'll get back to you.

[oliversommerliveloungede 0]

Hi Kate, yes you are right. I made the settings as you mentioned with the following result. Correct example would be No 2 then: - Tag page displayed correctly - Archive page displayed correctly - Search result not working - Category page not working I left these setting now on the site, so you can check that if you like. Thanks a lot for your help ... I think we are getting closer to it. Oliver

[Kate 3]

@Oliver No problem... Sorry we haven't gotten there yet. I did pass the info on, because I played with it myself and couldn't get it right, lol. So, we'll be in touch with you about it. Thanks for your patience!

[aequator 0]

I think this info might help: http://www.pagelines.com/forum/topic.php?id=4267&replies=18#post-22765

[oliversommerliveloungede 0]

It seems to me that this problem in the other post is related to static pages (homepage) in platform pro. I am using iBlogPro and this problem apears on the stadard category overview page. Anyway, I will read through it again carefully, but still think that this is something different. Thanks

[oliversommerliveloungede 0]

Hi, I even could not get it to work with the hints our of the other post. @Kate: Any progress on your side already or any other ideas? Thank you Oliver

[Kate 3]

@Oliver Hey... I did pass this on, but let me follow up with them. Sorry for the delay, but we appreciate your patience!

[oliversommerliveloungede 0]

@Kate Hey Kate, I do not want to push you, but like to ask for a status as I have seen that there were no hits on my blog system from your side up until now. Do you know if there is any progress already? Thanks a lot for your help

[cmunns 16]

To get the desired result in category and search pages you would have to edit _posts.php Find this line `<?php if(pl_show_content($post->ID)):?>` and change it to this: `<?php if(pl_show_content($post->ID) || is_category() || is_search()):?>` That should eliminate the auto-excerpting

[oliversommerliveloungede 0]

Hi Adam, thank you for your investigation. I also had a deeper look into the source code in the meantime, which was quite time consuming :-) ... anyhow I was also able to solve it. I was now going to post my finding here as this would be also (nearly the same) solution. I have seen in your core functions that you are handling excactly this case in a special way. Out of wp-content/themes/iblogpro/core/functions/functions_library.php

function pl_show_content($post = null){
	
	                        // show on single post pages only
	                        if(is_page() || is_single()) return true;
	
	                        if(is_home() && !VPRO) return true;
	
	                        if(is_search() || is_category()) return false;
	
	                        // show on all posts pages
	                        if(!pagelines('pl_postcontent') || (pagelines('pl_postcontent') == "all" && !is_search())) return true;
	
	                        else return false;
	
	        }
	

As you are setting for these cases the return value to false it also helps to set it to true in this file. I'm not sure ... if this correct or a mistake in the core function but we both got to the same result. Thank you very much Oliver

[ericmyers 0]

Oliver, Sounds good! Do you need anything else?

[oliversommerliveloungede 0]

No, thanks a lot ... everything is fine now. I just need to know how I can provide "Karma" for Kate and Adam. Cheers Oliver

[ericmyers 0]

Just click the Best Answer for this responses.

[oliversommerliveloungede 0]

I do not see this button. Maybe because I am not the one who initially created this topic. Anyhow, thank you to all for your help.