Sending full post in email despite "more" tag?

Hi!

How about using Excertps instead of the “more” tag?

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Excerpt

It would depend on whether or not your theme uses excerpts, though. If it doesn’t you could maybe modify it to use excerpts. Have a look at that and let me know what you think.

That workaround would work, but is extra faff that shouldn’t be necessary – Jetpack is supposed to make less work, not more.

Sorry, that was an unduly snappy answer – you did in fact answer the question I asked fully and effectively.

I tried the excerpt method today and it worked as expected. I’ll continue and see how it goes.

I was hoping for something like a tick-box (“send the entire post in email”), but I appreciate that every new user option is a problem in itself.

Hi David,

No worries, we all have “off” moments. ??

The thing is, the current behaviour is probably the expected behaviour for most people, since I have had folks ask me for exactly that: a way to send just part of their posts in the emails to force people to click through to their site. I always suggest the “more” tag in those cases. Adding a check-box like you suggest would, like you mention, be a problem in itself. ??

BTW, I subscribed to your site, so I’ll see for myself what the resulting email looks like. And fyi, I subscribed because I found it interesting, not just to see what you come up with as a solution to your issue!

Yeah, I appreciate I’m asking for the opposite of what most people would want – excerpts on the front page, full posts in the email.

One thing I’ve noticed with the excerpt method: I end up with a gratuitous spare “Read more ?” on that front-page excerpt. Livable-with, but slightly annoying. I suppose it’s an additional cue to the reader.

Glad you like it ??

Hi David!

Try adding this to your functions.php:

function new_excerpt_more( $more ) {
	return ' ';
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more' );

This should remove the Read more and replace it with nothing. Alternatively, you could replace the ” with ‘whatever text David wants here’; you can even make it into a link if you’d like. Look here for more info:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/the_excerpt#Make_the_.22read_more.22_link_to_the_post

If that doesn’t work, it’s possible that your theme already filters the text, so you’ll have to look through your theme to override it. Have a look here for an idea of what to do then:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9215464/removing-continue-reading-from-the-excerpt-on-certain-template-pages

Looks like there’s no way to do it in the child theme (since the child functions.php is loaded first), I would indeed need to hack into the base theme, which I’ve been avoiding (they didn’t make the relevant function overridable). How annoying. But, as I noted, I might leave it to tempt people to click.

Hi David!

If there is already a filter loaded in the base theme, then you can use remove_filter in your child theme’s function.php:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/remove_filter

once you’ve removed the base theme’s filter, you then add_filter your own, like I mentioned earlier. See? There’s always a way! ??