Tim Eckel

On Chrome desktop you can do a phone view in developer tools. I don’t have any problem like you’re reporting either on my phone or when I use my desktop. It’s something either on your system or how you have something setup as the plugin doesn’t do what you’re experiencing. There’s not even a timeout on the modal. It stays up till the user closes it. In other words, there’s not even code in the plugin to close it automatically. It doesn’t exist. I just installed the plugin on a new site and tried it on mobile and desktop and it worked just fine.

I’ve never seen anything like that. It sounds like it’s a local issue, maybe you have a popup blocker on your system?

Yes, it was tested on mobile and works. Could be any number of things. See the popup-modal.css file where you can also make whatever style changes you wish. Or, you can override in your own CSS files.

Got it, you’ll need to modify the plugin to work with a single site that’s multi-lingual as it wasn’t designed for that purpose. And I’m not familiar with how multi-lingual works.

See the “OPTIONAL SETTINGS” section in the installation guide:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/read-more-excerpt-link/#installation

Basically, you just change the text to be whatever you want, in whatever language you want.

You would need to add geotargeting, which would require a database of IP address ranges and still only be partially effective.

I see what you mean and will look into it.

Unfortunately, all WordPress plugins here use subversion instead of Git at all, let alone GitHub. I would personally much rather prefer GitHub as that’s where I do all my non-WordPress development. But, unfortunately it’s not the WordPress way. I know, seriously, they use subversion version control! Not much you or I can do about it. But, the plugin is in version control with WordPress via subversion, which you can pull and look at the source, etc. if you wish.

Tim

Wouldn’t developer tools be a better way to view HTML as it also formats it?

Probably not possible without custom code as it’s just text it would need to search for and skip.

How you resolve this is by adding the exact location you want the read more (at the end of the first paragraph).

I believe the excerpt comes from WordPress, which strips tags. The reason it does this is because of html state. Imagine if it’s half way in the middle of a paragraph and bold. It would need to know the state was paragraph and bold to close both (in the correct order). Instead, WordPress strips the html from the excerpt as tracking state (and order) would be very difficult.

You’re using your own read more instead of the default and what Read More Excerpt Link uses. There’s no reasy to use the [read more] stuff if you’re using Read More Excerpt Link. Or, you can activate the “Show More Frequently” within Read More Excerpt Link to process the read more even if you are also using the manual [read more] (that you don’t need to use when using Read More Excerpt Link.

In other words, remove [read more=”Read More” less=”Read less”] and [/read] and let Read More Excerpt Link take over.

In the Read More settings you can control what the text should be. It defaults to “Read More” but you can set it to be anything you wish. You must have changed it to “Read” if that’s what it’s showing.

The switch solves the problem, it may not compress inline JS as a result, but it does fix the problem. Keep in mind that this isn’t a bug, it’s doing exactly what it should be doing. You’re suggesting a feature enhancement, which I don’t have the ability to do at this time. Your suggestion is a good one, and if I had the time to spend on doing it I probably would. But, that’s out of the question at this time. But thanks again for your very good suggestion!

There’s already options in Minify HTML that address both this issue and the issue you linked to. Further, just because Minify HTML is changing your advertisement JS doesn’t mean it’s not working. Sounds like “black hat” advertising if they’re worried about you removing comments/whitespace.

In any case, use the switch to disable inline JS minification if this is something you can’t allow to happen.