More quicktag driving me nuts

Question

I'm a bit confused.

I have my own custom post type - products.

I'm listing all the products on page-products.php.

Every product has also it's own page - single-products.php.

And the big and strange thing is... I'm using more quicktag:

<!-- more -->

And it doesn't work on both single-products and page-products! I don't care about single page, but I'd love to use on the page-products listing. And I'm not able to.

Documentation says:

The MORE quicktag will not operate and is ignored in Templates, such as single.php, where just one post is displayed.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_content

So is it perfectly normal to not work for me in both cases? As far as I understand it should work in the first case... Is there a way to force more quicktag to display there?

And yes, in both cases more "produces" perfect more span... But even content after the span is being shown...

Thank you!

Answer 1

The "read more" link is essentially a navigational device meant to point visitors to a full version of a piece of some excerpted content. A single.php of any post type is the full version, therefore it is 100% in the nature of <!-- more --> to not appear on single custom post type pages.

If you're just looking to display a snippit of your content, check out the_excerpt().

Answer 2

Try this:

global $more;    // Declare global $more (before the loop).
$more = 0;       // Set (inside the loop) to display content above the more tag.
the_content("More...");

Answer 3

All we have to go on is <!-- more -->. If that's what you are actually doing, try this from the docs:

Note about <!--more--> :

• No whitespaces are allowed before the "more" in the <!--more--> quicktag. In other words <!-- more --> will not work!
• The quicktag will not operate and is ignored in Templates, such as single.php, where just one post is displayed.
• Read Customizing the Read More for more details.

(Ooops. I just noticed the <!-- got swallowed by the formatter.)