More break not working on homepage panes

Ian Walters
June 4, 2012 at 4:29 pm #4730

I have a More break in the post about Design Costs (after the word blacksmith) and it works fine on the category archive…

http://blinkcolony.com/category/blink-blog/

But not on the homepage panes…

Blink Colony provides a unique blend of branding, marketing, advertising and related business services to a wide range of local, regional and national clients.

Am I doing something wrong?

Many thanks

Ian.

Anonymous
June 4, 2012 at 5:28 pm #28997

Hello Ian,

The more tag is used (as you have already seen) for displaying custom excerpts on the archive pages.

The homepage panes are slightly different. They will display the first 55 words of a post. You can either use a custom function to control how many words are used (which alters every homepage pane).

Or, you can use the “custom excerpt” metabox found below your content editor while editing a post.

Simply enter what you would like to display, and it should reflect on the homepage panes.

Ian Walters
June 4, 2012 at 7:46 pm #28998

Thanks for the quick reply.

I don’t see the custom excerpt box. Is that a plugin or something I need to have enabled in a setting somewhere?

Ian Walters
June 4, 2012 at 8:10 pm #28999

Sorry to answer my own question…

I found it, it was turned off in the Screen Options drop down!

Mod

Kenneth John Odle
June 4, 2012 at 8:27 pm #29000

🙂

For those who don’t know:

http://blog.kjodle.net/2012/06/04/use-wordpress-screen-options-to-expand-your-blogging-options/