Less is no more. It has been renamed to Seemore and moved to its own Seemore plugin page.
Less: a WordPress plugin
Thursday, 23 June 2005
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Less is no more. It has been renamed to Seemore and moved to its own Seemore plugin page.
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Might I suggest that you provide some sort of hook to allow the user to indicate the line between the stuff that was on the front-page and the stuff that follows the comment? I personally don’t like the visual disorientation of trying to find where I was, and like to draw something that makes this clear.
Ideal would the the ability for the user to specify some HTML that gets dumped in at the splice point, eg [hr class=”my-less-divider”]. (Replace [ with angle brackets as appropriate, weird quoting used so that the HTML is not displayed as a rule in this comment.)
Maynard, that’s a good idea. I will try to think of a good way to do it. The interesting part will be handling cases where the [more] is in the middle of a paragraph. We don’t want a horizontal line (or whatever) splitting
the paragraph up like this. In fact, I can’t immediately think of a good way to handle this case. Any thoughts?
I’ll ponder this for a little while and see what comes up.
Good plugin!
I used to ‘hack’ the file myself to show the complete post, but this is much more convenient, especially when upgrading.
Thanks!
Jack
Thank you for the Evermore and Less plugins. I like them and I’m going to try them for a while and see how my readers like them.
I’ve been unconsciously scrolling up to view the full post ever since I discovered the teaser. Less is the solution that made me realize there was a problem.
Thank you for thinking for me, and writing this little plugin!
Haven’t used this yet, but for a divider, what about italics for the initial part of the article already read? Or, just don’t worry about mid-paragraph breaks – keep the graphic split indicator after the next paragraph break. Or, a halftone background? Thanks for this plug-in -can’t wait to try it.
Glenn, those are all excellent ideas. Changing the text (italics or background) is possible, but it’s very tricky to make it work in all situations. I’m still thinking about it. I was planning maybe some sort of coloured indicator that slowly fades out, but maybe that’s just too fancy. Less is more, remember?
Does the Less plugin have to be combined with Evermore for it to work? I followed the instructions to the letter but it’s not doing anything. I only installed Less though, because I want to control where the break appears rather than using Evermore.
Ubu, Less does not need any other plugin to work. Actually, I had a look at your blog — Less seems to be working fine. Note that when you click “Read the rest of this entry”, the resulting page shows the page header and post title and all, rather than scrolling to the remainder of the post. That’s all Less is supposed to do…
It seems so simple…but it doesn’t work for me. Don’t know where i’m wrong.
I just recently downloaded the LESS plug-in, but Im finding it doesnt work? Is this because Im using it in WordPress 2?
If I can get LESS and EVERMORE to work in my blog it would be fantastic – has anyone else found that these plug-ins work or dont work in WP2?
Thanks, Richard
Hi Richard. Unfortunately, I have not yet had the chance to test my plugins on WordPress 2. I would be interested in any feedback from users, but until I have upgraded my own blogs and tested the plugins I won’t be able to make any guarantees. I will try to do it this week when I finally get broadband connected in my new house!
Addressing Richard W’s comment, I have verified that Less works in WordPress 2. If you’re having problems with it, it’s probably not to do with WordPress 2. If anybody has a problem with it, please post a comment here (or contact me directly) with a link to your blog and I will investigate.