The Linquist theme (http://redworks.sk/wp-themes/linquist/) is a pretty sweet, simple to use, theme. However it’s crippled… If you want to add more text to an entry but not display it on the front page and have a “Read more…” link instead it is simply just not possible by default. I was contacted by a friend to see if it were possible to fix this since the author of the theme wanted him to pay to have this feature (which is pretty repulsive if you ask me, because it’s two lines of code to fix). Well here is the solution that I came up with:
1.) In the administration area of WP go to the theme editor (Appearance > editor) and open the index.php file.
2.) Find the following line of code:
<?php echo apply_filters(’the_content’, $content[1]); ?>
3.) Immediately below that line add this:
<?php if(!empty($content[2])){echo(’<a href=”‘);the_permalink();echo(’”>Read more…</a>’);} ?>
That’ll take care of the main page.
4.) Now open the single post page (single.php) and find this line of code:
<?php echo apply_filters(’the_content’, $content[1]); ?>
5.) And immediately below that add this:
<?php echo apply_filters(’the_content’, $content[2]); ?>
Now all you have to do in your posts is add a second <!-more-> tag (by clicking the button) between what you want your front page text to be and the rest of the article.
so it’ll be like this:
UPDATE:
Thanks to Andrew, I think we tracked down the source of the T_STRING errors that a few people are getting.
I was receiving the “unexpected T_STRING” error and looking closer at the code I pasted from this post I realized the single ‘ and double quote ” characters looked strange. I typed in my own characters from the wp admin and all seems well now.
Thanks Andrew!
tom
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