Give me < !-- more -- > please!!!
March 27th, 2008 by TheBonsai
USN saw that I had relative long articles in the main view, so he told me about a smart tag to insert: <!–more–>
Heyah, what a cool idea! I took a long article and entered <!–more-_> in the code editor. See the typo…? I didn’t 
From that minute on I wasn’t able to access the home page view anymore. Okay, I logged in, clicked through to edit the article and… Firefox (tested 3 different versions!) used 100% CPU over 5 minutes and finally… the editor page was empty. Tested other browsers, including Konqueror and IE6/7 – the only thing I learned was that some browsers have problems with geekish JavaScript stuff used here and there in WP. I stillwere not able to fix it from the webinterface, so I fixed it manually directly in the database.
Conclusion: Sometimes more is really less!
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March 27th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
you could use excerpt advanced and make use of custom loops.
March 29th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Funny, sometimes you’re writing english and sometimes german? Multilingual-blog, eh?
It would be possible to “limit” the words using php in one of the wp theme files, if you don’t want to use the feature.
March 29th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Jean,
there’s also the possibility to use the excerpt functionality of WP (using the_excerpt() instead of the_content() in the main index template). This can be configured by the advanced excerpt plugin (number of word/characters etc…). Giovanni pointed this out.
And yes, this is a multilingual blog – hence the language categories
J.
March 29th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
ah. haven’t seen that.