Comments on: Quick WordPress Tip: Playing with More http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/ Helping You To Optimize and Monetize Your WordPress Niche Blog Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:31:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jazmin http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84919 Jazmin Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:38:20 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84919 Hi Teli! Thank you for the cool tip. I'll definitely give it a try. I'd love to ask you a question, but I think it may be a little off-topic. When publishing excerpts, is it the "more" tag or the "optional excerpt" that dictates what will appear in your feed? If you visit <a href="http://feeds.makeupmoxie.com/moxie-blog-feed">my feed</a>, it displays the optional excerpts, but when I look at my feed in my Feedburner Dashboard or in Google Reader, my feed shows the excerpts created with the "more" tag. Could you please explain to me why this is happening? And whether I can control it? (I'd like to have the "optional excerpt" versions appear on my category and archive pages, and the "more tag" version in my feed and on the front page of my blog). Any help is very much appreciated! Hi Teli! Thank you for the cool tip. I’ll definitely give it a try.

I’d love to ask you a question, but I think it may be a little off-topic.

When publishing excerpts, is it the “more” tag or the “optional excerpt” that dictates what will appear in your feed?

If you visit my feed, it displays the optional excerpts, but when I look at my feed in my Feedburner Dashboard or in Google Reader, my feed shows the excerpts created with the “more” tag.

Could you please explain to me why this is happening? And whether I can control it? (I’d like to have the “optional excerpt” versions appear on my category and archive pages, and the “more tag” version in my feed and on the front page of my blog).

Any help is very much appreciated!

]]> By: Teli Adlam http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84582 Teli Adlam Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:25:23 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84582 Hi Jermayn, If you're using the template tag <code><?php the_excerpt(); ?></code> to display your excerpt, then not without modifying the WP core files or using a plugin. One such plugin is <a href="http://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the_excerpt-reloaded/">The Excerpt Reloaded</a>; I haven't tested it with WP 2.3, however, from some of the comments it seems to be compatible. ~ Teli Hi Jermayn,
If you’re using the template tag <?php the_excerpt(); ?> to display your excerpt, then not without modifying the WP core files or using a plugin.

One such plugin is The Excerpt Reloaded; I haven’t tested it with WP 2.3, however, from some of the comments it seems to be compatible.

~ Teli

]]> By: Jermayn Parker http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84580 Jermayn Parker Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:33:07 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84580 Ok lets say you use the excerpt instead of the <code>more </code>option, is there anyway of getting a "read more" instead of the <code>[...]</code> Thanks Ok lets say you use the excerpt instead of the more option, is there anyway of getting a “read more” instead of the [...]

Thanks

]]> By: Mark Penix http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84142 Mark Penix Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:52:52 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84142 @Teli, my point was that the goal of any blogger should be to provide full text to everyone that wants/needs it... regardless of their reading style (feed, email, or web). Just thought people should be aware of the default implications of the more tag. @Teli, my point was that the goal of any blogger should be to provide full text to everyone that wants/needs it… regardless of their reading style (feed, email, or web).

Just thought people should be aware of the default implications of the more tag.

]]> By: Teli Adlam http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84138 Teli Adlam Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:13:35 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84138 Also wanted to add something else: <blockquote>The reasoning behind this is that in your RSS feeds (which is the main people read your blog) the more link cuts off your feed.</blockquote> Not entirely accurate. There are still many people who do not know what an RSS feed is, how one works, or have a feed reader and don't really care to learn about it. As much as we'd prefer to have <em>all</em> or a <em>majority</em> of our readers using our feeds, it's important to note that there are many who would prefer updates via e-mail or would simply like to check back to the site of their own accord. ~ Teli Also wanted to add something else:

The reasoning behind this is that in your RSS feeds (which is the main people read your blog) the more link cuts off your feed.

Not entirely accurate. There are still many people who do not know what an RSS feed is, how one works, or have a feed reader and don’t really care to learn about it.

As much as we’d prefer to have all or a majority of our readers using our feeds, it’s important to note that there are many who would prefer updates via e-mail or would simply like to check back to the site of their own accord.

~ Teli

]]> By: Teli Adlam http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84137 Teli Adlam Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:10:56 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84137 Or, if having a post cut off due to the more tag in the RSS is an issue, the blogger can just install a small plugin which negates it and have the best of both worlds. :) <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/full-text-feed/" rel="nofollow">Full Text Feed</a> ~ Teli Or, if having a post cut off due to the more tag in the RSS is an issue, the blogger can just install a small plugin which negates it and have the best of both worlds. :)

Full Text Feed

~ Teli

]]> By: Mark Penix http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84133 Mark Penix Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:40:59 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-84133 I don't really advise people to use the "more" tag, instead edit their theme and put "the_excerpt" where "the_content" is... then write a meaningful excerpt with every post. The reasoning behind this is that in your RSS feeds (which is the main people read your blog) the more link cuts off your feed. I really enjoy your site and hope you check out mine as well. I don’t really advise people to use the “more” tag, instead edit their theme and put “the_excerpt” where “the_content” is… then write a meaningful excerpt with every post.

The reasoning behind this is that in your RSS feeds (which is the main people read your blog) the more link cuts off your feed.

I really enjoy your site and hope you check out mine as well.

]]> By: Len Gilbert http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-83904 Len Gilbert Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:35:03 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-83904 Nice tip! We have a couple of verbose bloggers on our company group blog and a custom tag lets a bit of their personality and style come through. Thanks! Nice tip! We have a couple of verbose bloggers on our company group blog and a custom tag lets a bit of their personality and style come through. Thanks!

]]> By: Teli Adlam http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-83849 Teli Adlam Fri, 07 Sep 2007 05:10:41 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-83849 Hi Rose, Glad to see you around here. Make sure that your blog is running WP 2.1 or above. Also, make sure there is a space between the word 'more' and the text you want to display and make sure that you enter the tag in the 'code' view if you're using the WYSIWYG editor. Hope that helps, ~ Teli Hi Rose,
Glad to see you around here.

Make sure that your blog is running WP 2.1 or above. Also, make sure there is a space between the word ‘more’ and the text you want to display and make sure that you enter the tag in the ‘code’ view if you’re using the WYSIWYG editor.

Hope that helps,
~ Teli

]]> By: Rose DesRochers http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-83848 Rose DesRochers Fri, 07 Sep 2007 04:53:41 +0000 http://www.optiniche.com/blog/329/wp-more-tag-tip/#comment-83848 Thank you for the tip, but for some reason it did not work. Thank you for the tip, but for some reason it did not work.

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