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girlandadog on "Stop posts from being trunucated with Fresh & Clean theme?"

girlandadog — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:59:46 +0000

Great information! Thank you, thank you! :)

timethief on "Stop posts from being trunucated with Fresh & Clean theme?"

timethief — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:53:39 +0000

Is it always going to say "Continue reading" at the end of the post even if there's nothing else to read? Seems a bit odd.

Yes that will appear and can only be removed with a annually renewable custom design upgrade and the reqired CSS editing.

Almost all of the old themes display full posts and nmany new themes dont/ There is a wide evariation. However, as page loading time is a page ranking factor and as many are using mobile devices, tablets, netbooks and laptops the display of full posts and particularily more than one post on the main page for posts is not as attractive an option as it once was. It will become less and less attractive as time goes on as there is a mobile explosion going on.

Fresh & Clean is new a responsive width theme. Responsive width means the the layout adapts depending on the size of the device being used to view your site. When responsive width themes are viewed on mobiles sidebars appear below the posts in order to provide as much space as possible for reading.

girlandadog on "Stop posts from being trunucated with Fresh & Clean theme?"

girlandadog — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:44:29 +0000

Thank you so much!

Is it always going to say "Continue reading" at the end of the post even if there's nothing else to read? Seems a bit odd.

Do most of the free themes show the full post without having to mess with the excerpt box?

Thanks again! :)

timethief on "Stop posts from being trunucated with Fresh & Clean theme?"

timethief — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:12:54 +0000

Fresh & Clean has an active excerpt box which you can copy and paste the entire post into and get the full posts display. See here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/the-excerpt-function/

girlandadog on "Stop posts from being trunucated with Fresh & Clean theme?"

girlandadog — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:07:41 +0000

Hi! I would like the full post to show on the front page. I absolutely adore this theme, so I'm hoping that it's possible and I'm just skimming by a setting. Can someone let me know if it's possible to have the entire post show? I don't mind if older posts are truncated so much, but it'd be nice if they could all show -- maybe 5 entries per page. Is this possible?

panaghiotisadam on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

panaghiotisadam — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:05:41 +0000

Thanks too. You can quote what I explained above and tell them their reply is wrong.

jennikeast on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

jennikeast — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:13:44 +0000

Okay, I got it...thanks. Meanwhile, I heard from WP support. According to them there isn't even supposed to be a "Read More" option with this theme. Here is the support ticket and response copied here:

I did: Created truncated versions of my blog posts in the template
> Inuit.
>
> I saw: No "Read More" at end of each blog entry (except for one).
>
> I expected: There to be Read More automatically insert after I
> truncated each entry. Posted this issue in Forums - they advised me
> to contact you as they said it should automatically be appearing.

Hi There

This is the default for this theme. It is not meant to show the Read More links at all, but since some of your posts have longer sections before the More tag, it shows up for these posts.

panaghiotisadam on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

panaghiotisadam — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:30:09 +0000

I thought I explained why this is so; trying harder:

When you don't insert a more tag, the theme displays the first 55 words of your post, and appends its own auto Read-more tab. When you insert a more tag before the 55th word, you get the excerpt you want but no read-more tab. When you insert it after the 55th word, it is simply ignored: what you get is the auto tab of the theme, not the one you added.

jennikeast on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

jennikeast — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:15:00 +0000

I'm still experimenting but it seems that when I add just another line or two of copy it inserts the "Read More." Guess "it" doesn't like the post to be too truncated! Having said that, that's a bother because I don't want to add another line of copy as the next sentence runs into the one I wanted to end with--making it difficult to read. Any ideas?

jennikeast on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

jennikeast — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:13:53 +0000

Okay, well that's good to know...thanks for the heads up. :)

timethief on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

timethief — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:58:34 +0000

@jennikeast
OOPS! Perhaps we ought to have been clear about how long things take and how many of us there are. There are millions of us wordpress.com bloggers. It takes time for your ticket to make it up the queque and to be acted upon. Do not hold your breath expecting that the Inuit Types template will be instantly edited. The Theme Staff may not even choose to agree with us at all and they likely have other priorties set. Normally Staff don't waste time emailing to say they received your ticket, at least they never have on mine.

jennikeast on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

jennikeast — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:46:02 +0000

Still haven't heard from Word Press support. How long does it take them on average to respond. Most support place usually send you a confirmation email acknowledging you contacted them. Do they do that here?

panaghiotisadam on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

panaghiotisadam — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:25:58 +0000

Thanks guys...

Clarifying a couple of points for jennikeast's sake:
1) Custom more tag means this:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/#custom-read-more-message
2) "You can create your own" in my previous post means you can create your own using HTML.

timethief on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

timethief — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:20:09 +0000

I use Inuit Types too and I agree with Panos "the custom more tag, at least, should produce a visible tab - like it does in Structure ".

thesacredpath on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

thesacredpath — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:55:55 +0000

@Panos, thanks for the confirmation. Strange behavior indeed and I'm with you, it should be fixed.

jennikeast on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

jennikeast — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:21:24 +0000

Okay, looks like I will have to report it to the Staff as I did not insert a "Read More" --like you said, it should do it automatically.

I just contacted them. Will let you know what they say (and hopefully help other people in the process.)

Really do like this template...nice and clean and simple. :)

panaghiotisadam on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

panaghiotisadam — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 10:17:46 +0000

Yes, that's how the theme works: if you don't insert a more tag yourself, the theme displays an excerpt with a "Read more" tab at the end; if you insert a more tag, it works (if the excerpt you isolate is shorter than the automatic one), but no "Read more" tab shows up. You can create your own, but this shouldn't be necessary. In my opinion you should report this to staff: the custom more tag, at least, should produce a visible tab - like it does in Structure.

thesacredpath on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

thesacredpath — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:22:11 +0000

Did you actually put "read more" tags in the posts? Inuit types does that automatically. If you did, try taking them out and see if the automatic read more shows up. You might have to force refresh your home page to see the change.

jennikeast on "Truncated blog entries not showing "Read More""

jennikeast — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 07:32:34 +0000

Okay, what gives here? Only one of my truncated blog entries/posts is showing the "Read More" ... The other three don't have that. True, a client/reader could click on the thumbnail and it would take them to the full blog entry but I really think there needs to be a "Read More" at the end of each truncated blog entry.

Besides which, it's supposed to be there - inserted automatically after you insert the split. So why is it only showing up on one blog entry (The Trade as One feature story.) Since ultimately I'm going to be posting dozens of blog entries in a very short period (2 weeks) I really will need the Read More to be there!

Thanks so much for your help. :)

5700words on "Searched posts show up truncated!"

5700words — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:19:51 +0000

I made a big mistake up there. My second post had nothing to do with the first one; it was meant for another question. My bad. 8-(

I still would like to know how I can get those posts to be in their entirety rather than truncated. ~Peregrine

5700words on "Searched posts show up truncated!"

5700words — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:42:09 +0000

Oh! Now I see that has become a menu/sub-menu thing. So to get to my Dashboard I have to Click My Blogs and then click onto the correct blog AND THEN I get the option to click the Dashboard.

My vote is for the other way when it was just the Dashboard showing up there without having to scroll through to a sub-menu. '

~Peregrine

5700words on "Searched posts show up truncated!"

5700words — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:07:42 +0000

I just discovered a not-so-happy issue with my blog. It happened while I had to do a Search on a post that I had written last month. After I typed in the search word, it brought me to the article, but the article was truncated. At the bottom of the cut-off there were three or four dots .... and the words [Edit this.] — I guess as a helpful tool for if in case the blogger searched for the article in order to edit it. If I click on the title of the post, then the entire post shows up.

Anyhow, I want any viewer to be able to reach the entire article as it appears in the blog, not a truncated form of it. Not all viewers/readers know to click onto the title to get the entire length of the post, or at least the entire length of what appears in the blog. (Since some posts are cut off with a link to another site.)

Can someone please explain why my searched posts show up truncated, and what I can do to fix this? Thanks.

~Peregrine