Missing your ‘more’ tag? No worries.
I had trouble getting the ‘more’ tag to show up in the WordPress loop after adding a custom WordPress loop to the top of my index.php file (it would apply to a home.php or any other theme file too). This is what I came up with after an extensive amount of searching:
This is a custom WordPress Loop which only shows the latest post by a particular author (in this case, Zac):
This is a custom WordPress Loop which shows the title, which links to the post, and the date of the post underneath, from a specific category (in this case (success). It is set to only show 1 post at a time. Rewind_posts() only has to be used on pages using the standard WordPress loop. Pages with other custom loops do not need the rewind function.
In order to show the ‘more tag’ in your normal or regular posts, you’ll need to add this to the wp_head tag in the header like this:
And this to the WordPress loop before the content tag like this:
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