[WPDaveParticipant]

I have the “Full Post Content on Index” option set and would like to insert a Read More link that limits what is shown on my index page. I’ve read a number of the posts in the Knowledge Base but none seems to address the simple question of how to insert the Read More separator and get the standard WordPress behavior.

I’m editing with Cornerstone and have tried a variety of approaches. I’ve tried inserting a Raw Content object and inserting the <!–more–> tag into it. It doesn’t do anything. I’ve tried inserting that tag into a Text object. No help. It does look correct in the Visual Editor. I.e., it shows a line of dashes with the text MORE in the middle. But I still get the full text on the index page.

I’ve tried inserting a Code Snippet with the <!–more–> tag. No go. I’ve tried providing a custom excerpt. No help either.

Isn’t there some easy way to get this basic WordPress behavior? I’m using the Integrity Stack. This is my development site:
http://photoperformance.photos/photoPX/

David Salahi

[ZeshanMember]

Hi David,

Thanks for writing in!

It’s not possible to use these lines in Cornerstone because of the reason Cornerstone wraps all elements inside sections and columns unlike the standard WordPress editor. That’s why if we enable the support of let’s say <!--more--> tag, it will break the layout of your content because it’ll skip the rest of the text as well as the closing HTML tags of the sections that Cornerstone generates. Our developers are aware of this and looking to address it in the future.

Thanks for understanding.

[WPDaveParticipant]

Thanks for the reply. I hope your developers do come up with something soon because this is a deal-breaker for me. I recently discovered the X theme and immediately loved it. I switched over one of my sites to it. Next, I was proceeding to convert my blog but now I think I’m going to have stop and wait. I need an option somewhere between no text and the entire post’s text.

The only workaround I see is continuing to write articles using the default WordPress editor. My previous articles done that way display nicely on the index page; i.e., they only display the content before the More tag. But a big attraction of the X theme is Cornerstone. If I can’t use it then there’s not much motivation to change themes.

I also looked at the possibility of manually creating a blog home page as a regular page using the Recent Posts element. Unfortunately, that element only displays the title and none of the text. It is also too limited in other ways.
It would seem that a simple solution would be to offer the option to display the custom Excerpt in either the Recent Posts element or on a blog index page. But there would need to be an option to display an image, too, perhaps designated by setting a featured image.

By the way, I had a hard time trying to get back to this post to leave this follow-up comment. I searched for my last name which I figured would be unique and take me right to this post. But the search came up empty. And there’s no option to subscribe to post activity. There’s also no list of my posts under my account. So, I ended up stepping through the most recent dozen pages of posts to find this one. Not great in terms of usability.

[RupokMember]

We certainly appreciate the feedback! This is something we can add to our list of feature requests. This way it can be taken into consideration for future development. All of these items are discussed with our team internally and prioritized based on the amount of interest a particular feature might receive.

However I am not sure why you are facing difficulty on finding your own posts. You can see your activity right from your Account > View Topic – https://community.theme.co/users/wpdave/topics/

You can also subscribe post to get email notification. It could be found on top right corner of your post – http://prntscr.com/a0vqzz

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks!

[WPDaveParticipant]

Oh, thanks for the info on finding posts! Somehow, I missed both of those.
Thanks!!
Dave

[DarshanaModerator]

Glad we were able to help 🙂

[WPDaveParticipant]

I just discovered that I can use Cornerstone short codes in the WordPress text editor. That gives me access to all the layout options and special features Cornerstone provides. That also allows me to use the <More> tag—and show only the post contents before the tag on the index page. While it would be preferable to be able to use the visual Cornerstone page builder I think that using the text editor with shortcodes could be an acceptable workaround.

But this does raise a question—if I can manually insert functional <More> tags why can’t the Cornerstone page builder do the same thing?

[RadModerator]

Hi there,

<!--more--> will split the content, and just display the content before the declaration of <!--more-->. The problem with that is layout splitting into a half.

The text editor is usually for text editing or normal content, it’s very rare to see HTML layout being used on it hence adding <!--more--> is not a problem.

The problem is when your content has the structure (opening and closing structures). And adding <!--more--> in the middle of anything will break it. Just opening without closing structures. It’s permanently removed from cornerstone until we find some effective solution.

Thanks for understanding.

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