[Resolved] “Read more” link/button doesn’t show up in the last post

[Ralf]

Hi there,

on a website with a blog page a client uses the read more button/link and it always showed up so far,
but in the last post it does not appear…

i tried to insert the read more tag of wordpress but nothing changed.
I also unchecked and checked again the option in customizer for this button/link – but didn’t work

she is creating the posts in Elementor

in a new Test Post the link showed up again, but why not in this last post ? it happened once in the past and it seems that when the post is very long, the read more doesn’t appear (just a thought, don’t know…), because also this other post in the past was long… any ideas?

Thanks

[Elvin]

Hi,

Let’s check a few things.

Is the post using a manual excerpt? If yes, refer to this post. https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/read-more-button-disappears-when-using-manual-excerpts/

And this documentation – https://docs.generatepress.com/article/activating-read-custom-excerpt/

Also, can you check if the post format is set to standard? Not having the post format set to standard is known to cause this issue.

[Ralf]

no, the post is not using a manual excerpt – the author doesn’t know how to do that – she is just writing her posts in elementor. and yes, the format is set to standard.

[Ralf]

PS: we changed the page to a Blog Website – so the landingpage is the blog now – the link is below

[Leo]

I’m not seeing anything obvious.

If you create a new post (without Elementor) with some test content, does the excerpt show?

[Ralf]

Hi Leo,
yes, when i create a new post (with elementor and without elementor) the readmore-link is visible…

this is what i don’t understand – it is just this last post, where the excerpt is not showing up and i don’t know why.

[David]

Hi there,

what happens if you copy the content of that post to a new post – does the readmore display ?

[Ralf]

Hi David

yes, when she copies the article into a new post, the readmore display.

i guess the easiest way to solve this is to use this new post and move/copy the comments to this new post, because she doesn’t wanna loose the comments… is there a way to do that ?

[David]

Hmmm… tricky one.
The only plugin that people still recommend is this one:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tako-movable-comments/

Although its out of date – one reviewer has said it still works in WP 5.
I would suggest only testing on a staging server.

Otherwise you would need to find and replace them the Database.

[Ralf]

Ok, thank you !

[David]

You’re welcome

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