That's our Drupal: you'll be racing along, everything finally shiny and tuned and humming, and suddenly she'll throw a rod or blow a gasket or nip a node title or something.
Or maybe that's tech in general, not just Drupal. But anyway.
On my main site page, you'll see that older posts, up to Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 3, have the nice Read More link (when there is something more to read). But from Drupal and the Blogging Starter Checklist, Part 4 and later nodes, Read More disappears. And that's bad for a site: while visitors can easily read more by clicking on the node title, the casual reader might not realize there's more to read (or realize that the node title is the link to do so).
Why did the links disappear? I can't find any reason. The only suspect I could round up is the Read More Tweak module.
http://drupal.org/project/ed_readmore
I had it installed, but was happy to let it go. It's supposed to move the Read More link to more tony territory, and I'd be happy with that: I really dislike the low-rent, hard-to-see spot after "Add new comment", for a link as important as "Read Me". But Read More Tweak has never done a thing for me, Not lifted a finger. No matter how I configure it, on any site, nothing changes.
So I turned it off. But the Read More links didn't come back. I re-edited the newer problematic nodes, made sure they had normal teasers like older nodes, compared them to older nodes to look for any difference at all, cajoled them to divulge their secret troubles. I can't find anything. And searching the Drupal.org forums for something as jejune as "Read More" doesn't get one far.
Oh dear readers! Any clue as to what might be afoot?
Re: It's always something: "Read More" links dropping out
If you have any content types where you've removed the standard Body field, the "Read More" tag won't show up. It only measures the amount of text from the main Body field--not CCK fields.
I'm currently looking for a fix to this. When I find one, I'll come back and post it...maybe.
Re: It's always something: "Read More" links dropping out
Hmm. That's not my problem here, as I'm not using custom CCK fields for my general Blog Entry and Page nodes – but it's still a very useful tip. Thanks much!
Re: It's always something: "Read More" links dropping out
Hey there,
I had a similar problem on my website, only for me all the links were gone. No more comments, read more, ... and so on
After doing some research i ended up on your site, i guess there's still no solution for your problem. I'm not sure if my problem was the same as yours but i had a module 'Synonym Collapsing' wich somehow removed the links on my site. Perhaps this might give you some ideas to find the solution for your website ...
Nice theme btw :)
Re: It's always something: "Read More" links dropping out
Hi, have you found any solution to that in between? Or better: a guess what might be the cause for it?? I'm asking, as I perhaps have a similar problem... my read-more links just disappear on *some* nodes BUT only with this "Read More Tweak"-Module switched ON.... (when off, they are in place). Really very strange thing...
Re: It's always something: "Read More" links dropping out
The first line of this function is what determines if the read more links get displayed ... might give you some clues ... http://api.drupal.org/api/function/node_prepare/5 ... don't forget the strlens are calculated "gross" i.e. including any markup
HTH,
gpk
Re: It's always something: "Read More" links dropping out
Sorry for the slow reply; I've been traveling.
No, no "Read More" love on my site yet. : ( The links still are gone from many teasers, for no reason I can see.
I'll play a bit more with the Read More Tweak module, and if that doesn't work, will try this: http://drupal.org/node/36008
Will report back here!
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