How to display the Read More tag in excerpts on a category page in WordPress
Normally, the More tag only works on the homepage. The code is already in place, and you simply add in the post where you want the cut made.
There are various tricks out there that will allow you to do the same on a Page, and even on a category overview page. Here are a few examples:
Explaining the More tag:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More and
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
Solutions:
rlmseo.com
wordpress.org: more tag not working in category display
wordpress.stackexchange.com
wordpress.org: read more link leads nowhere on page
weblogtoolscollection.com
My challenge was getting it to show on a category index page, where a list of post excerpts where shown.
For some reason (possibly because in my case I had to make it work on an older theme that may not have been built for it), none of these solutions worked. So I decided to create my own solution. It’s very simple, but I’ll post it here because I’m clearly not the only one who had this problem.
I started with this code in the category.php template:
blank
<div class="entry">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"> <?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<p><small><?php the_author(); ?>, <?php the_time('j F Y') ?></small></p>
</div>
And simply changed it to this:
<div class="entry">
<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"> <?php the_title(); ?></a>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?><em><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Link to full article"><br/>Read more...</a></em>
<p><small><?php the_author(); ?>, <?php the_time('j F Y') ?></small></p>
</div>
If this works for you, please leave a comment, good luck!
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