Read More Solution Causing Other Issues

Hello, I’ve read through several of the posts regarding this “Read More” button disappearing issue. I’ve tried several and currently just put in the most simple:
a.more-link {
display: block;
color: #DA4453;
}

But no matter what code I try it has caused other issues such as:

  1. The style of the text before Read More gets altered. It is set to bold and centered, but on the homepage, this style is totally gone.
    See homepage: http://ddfblog.com/
    Vs. full post: Haley Hill's 2nd DDFNetworkVR Appearance | The Eyes of DDF

  2. Posts that have an image at the beginning of the post, but not added as a Featured Image, are no longer appearing on the homepage:
    See last two articles on the bottom of homepage: http://ddfblog.com/
    Vs. full post: DDF Network Sexy Sounds 039 Featuring Melena Maria | The Eyes of DDF

I’d really appreciate any assistance to help get the site back to how it used to be…

Thanks!

Hey there,

I hope you are well today and thank you for your question.

You can try achieving this by adding the following CSS code in the Custom CSS option of your theme on the below path.

Admin Area -> Appearance -> Customize -> Additional CSS

/*center and bold read more button text*/
.home .btn.btn-default.read-more{
  background-color:blue;
  border-color:blue;
  font-weight: bold;
  position: relative;
  right:43%;
}

In regards to the issue you’re having, disable all third party plugins except those recommended by the theme, and check to see if the issue persists.

Best regards,
Support.

Unfortunately, this code you sent is for the button, so will not fix my problem. The issue is the main body text. In the admin it is set to bold and centered, and appears correctly on the full post page, such as:
http://ddfblog.com/haley-hill-makes-her-2nd-appearance-on-ddf-network-vr/

But since putting in the code to make the Read More button reappear, the main body text that shows up on the homepage before the Read More tag, no longer is bold and centered. See: http://ddfblog.com/

Perhaps you can send me another code I can use to make the Read More tag reappear that doesn’t cause these other issues? Otherwise, code to keep the body text settings from the admin?

Thanks for your help!

You can make home page text bold using below CSS code.

.blog .entry-content {
    font-weight: 800;
}

Unfortunately, that did not make any difference, as you’ll see here: http://ddfblog.com/

Hey @cindydff

You can try this instead

/*center blog post on home page*/
div.entry-content p {
    font-weight: bold;
    text-align:center;
}

Best regards,
Support

It is not working because you are using custom CSS code incorrectly on your site as shown below.

			/*
You can add your own CSS here.

a.more-link {
    display: block;
    color: #DA4453;
}

.blog .entry-content {

font-weight: 800;
}
Click the help icon above to learn more.
*/	

Instead you should use it as displayed below.

a.more-link {
    display: block;
    color: #DA4453;
}
.blog .entry-content {
font-weight: 800;
}

Unfortunately, this code isn’t working either. Any other suggestions?

If worse comes to worst and nothing seems to work after a reasonable amount of attempts, then we may just get approvals on our end to leave the text as is.

However, the other problem we still need addressed is that the posts with images inserted at the beginning of the content area (instead of set as featured), have disappeared from the homepage.

See the last article on the homepage: http://ddfblog.com/
Vs. the article page: DDF Network Sexy Sounds 039 Featuring Melena Maria | The Eyes of DDF

It doesn’t make sense why getting the Read More button back would make these images disappear, but that seems to be the case. Would appreciate any help with this one.

Thanks!

Still you are using the wrong code on your site and not correcting it as i have described above.

Oh I see now. I didn’t realize I should be taking out the instructions. Sorry about that. That now did the trick for the bold and I added code for centering. Thank you!

Now the issue remaining is why the images don’t show up on the homepage:
See the last article on the homepage: http://ddfblog.com/
Vs. the article page: DDF Network Sexy Sounds 039 Featuring Melena Maria | The Eyes of DDF

Would appreciate any help with this one. Thanks!

Hey there,

Just to be clear you’re saying this post DDF Network Sexy Sounds 039 Featuring Melena Maria | The Eyes of DDF
DOES have a featured image, but it’s not showing?

If you don’t have a feature image for that post, it’s definitely necessary. What you can do is hide the feature image ate the top using CSS.

Best regards,
Support.

Hi Support,

No, this post doesn’t have a Featured Image. The image up at top was inserted directly into the content area, and shows up fine when viewing the full article. However, it doesn’t show up on the homepage.

http://ddfblog.com/ddf-network-sexy-sounds-039-featuring-melena-maria/

http://ddfblog.com (see last article on page)

Is there some kind of coding in the template that prevents images other than Featured Images from showing on the Homepage?
Thanks for your help!

All you other posts have featured image set as can be seen here DDF Network VR Debuts Sybian Sisters | The Eyes of DDF so please set featured image also for this post DDF Network Sexy Sounds 039 Featuring Melena Maria | The Eyes of DDF

I found that it wasn’t just the images that aren’t showing up on the homepage though. All the links in the text before the Read More are also not showing up as links. So it appears that any images or links before the Read More doesn’t show up?

Yes it doesn’t display when you display post excerpt on blog page.

To display it you have to either use full post content by unchecking the theme option “Show post excerpts?” as shown in the attached screenshot or add post excerpt text along with images and links tags in the excerpt field of post as described on the below page.

That totally did the trick! Thank you so much! Now just one last thing and I think we’re all set. :slight_smile:

Where do I change the text of the Read More? At the moment it says: (more…).

I would like to change it to: (Read more…)

You are most welcome here :slight_smile:

To help us keep support thread separates could you please create new thread for each of your other questions here https://colorlibsupport.com/c/sparkling/ instead of asking them in your single thread as it makes the thread messy and hard to read.

If you want to you can also add reference of this thread in your newly created thread.

We would be more than happy to help you on your new thread.