More tag on custom pages

Does your site have a URL?

At the moment I’m running it on a local testing server(MAMP)

This is what I have in my custom page template:

get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

				<h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
				<?php global $more;$more = 0;?>
				<?php the_content('More on the Artist >>'); ?>
				<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyten' ), 'after' => '' ) ); ?>
				<?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'twentyten' ), '', '' ); ?>

				<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

I’m using the Starkers naked theme as a building block as I’m new to wordpress.

So you actually see the more link and click on it and nothing happens? Where does the link point to? When you place your cursor on it without clicking, what URL is shown in the bottom status bar of your browser?

it points to:

https://localhost:8888/sitename/?page_id=110#more-110

There are a colon and an endif-tag missing in your template. Try:

get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

				<h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
				<?php global $more;$more = 0;?>
				<?php the_content('More on the Artist >>'); ?>
				<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyten' ), 'after' => '' ) ); ?>
				<?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'twentyten' ), '', '' ); ?>

				<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks for the suggestion, I added the colon and endif-tag as above but still no luck in getting the content to show once the more tag is clicked.

Sorry, I’m sort of trying to figure out what you’re trying to achieve with that page template of yours. Is it supposed to display an actual page (that is: the post-type “page”)? Because if so, then there is no “more” functionality. WordPress just doesn’t do it on pages, only on posts (post-type “post”).

On the other hand, if you’re trying to display a chronological list of posts (post-type “post”) with that page template, you need to set up a custom loop first. Check out the Codex for WP_Query. It’s a fine piece of machinery!
In your case, you’d probably want to set up something like:

get_header(); 

// Set up a new WP_Query to tell WordPress what kind of posts you want
$my_query = new WP_Query( array( 'post_type' => 'post', 'status' => 'published' ) );

// Now start your new loop with those if and while statements
if ( $my_query->have_posts() ) :
	while ( $my_query->have_posts() ) :
		$my_query->the_post();
		global $more; // don't forget to reset the $more variable
		$more = 0;
?>

<h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>
<?php the_content( 'More on the Artist >>' ); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyten' ), 'after' => '' ) ); ?>
<?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'twentyten' ), '', '' ); ?>

<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

<?php endwhile; // ends the while statement from above
endif; // ends the if statement from above

// Because you used the_post(), you need to reset all post data,
// otherwise things will likely get messed up for you later
wp_reset_postdata();

// And that was your custom loop!
?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Hope that helps!

Thanks for getting back to me. I will have a look into the codex for WP_Query.

What I am trying to achieve is: I have four paragraphs of content which I would to be displayed after the more tag is clicked.

Well, if that’s all you’re trying to do, forget about WP_Query! The more tag is just not the way to go then, because you have a single page content, not a query of posts. The more tag simply does not work with pages, that’s it.

You could use Javascript, i.e. a jQuery function, to achieve what you want to do. But to be honest, if it was my project, I’d re-evaluate if the effect I get from it is worth the effort of adding a bunch of Javscript.

Thanks for your help.