Where are changes to Weaver Posted?

[ecat]

I am currently running Xtreme Plus.  I have 3 installations, 6.2.0.1, 6.4, and 6.7.  Running 6.5.1 of support tools.  WordPress is at 6.6.2 and 6.7.1.

My problem is at least two features of my app have quit working under the later Xtreme versions.

The first involves page-head-code which I understand has been removed from Weaver Xtreme per WordPress request.  Now that I know that I can work around it.

My second issue is that the more… link in my custom post type no longer works– it says the page is not found.  I read that the 2024 theme has disabled the more and replaced it with a more block.  Has something similar happened in Weaver Xtreme?  I have reset permalinks but don’t know what else to try.  I do not use blocks.

I have looked on the forum for a list of versions of Weaver and what has changed.  Is there such a list and can you point me to them?

[scrambler]

@weaver would need to comment

[Weaver]

Changes are listed in the readme.txt file on the theme directory.

[Weaver]

How are you creating content with your custom post type? I’m not sure Weaver Xtreme handled custom post type in any special way.

[scrambler]

The release notes are also accessible from the Dashboard Appearance > Xtreme admin > Theme Help tab > Release note section

I see nothing in the release notes about the more link.

That said, this is a WordPress feature, not a theme feature, so it may have been deprecated by WordPress.

I did try to create a post with a lot of text and a few read more inserted, and I don’t see it doing anything in the post content. But I don’t really know what it is supposed to do…

[User]

Dear Each,

It seems WP has changed this, as it doesn’t work for me either on my test site, after checking.

The link below gives 2x solutions.

1. Add a “Read More” plugin
2. Add some php code in a Child Theme (see video).

Yep, seems to be a WP Core matter, not a Theme one.

Link:  Read more tag not working | WordPress.org

FYI, changing to WP 2021 theme and with no plugins, it still does not insert the “Show More” button……

Regards!

[Weaver]

Thanks for tracking that down.

Does this mean the <!--more--> tag doesn’t work anymore?

I did see a note about there being a read-more block for the block editor.

[User]

@Weaver

Yes on my site, both live and test.  That’s my experience as of today.

The <!--more--> code is added to the post edit screen and shows on the both the visual and text tabs, but it seems that it now performs no functions beyond that.  On a published post, there is no evidence of the codes existence.

HOWEVER, that is not the case actually. 

Viewing the Source Page Code of a current post I see the following test code: ”  < p > < span id=”more – 292913” >< /span >< /p > ”

I’m sure you’ll get the same on a test.

So that mean that the function is working in part, but the link to the “more-292913” data is broken, I guess?

Honestly, it is a function I have never uses on a live site, so did not notice this.

Update:  On my test site with a 2012 Theme and only the “Advanced Editor Tools” and “Classic Editor” plugins, the same occurs, and the Page Source Code shows:  ” < span id=” more-155 ” > ” though nothing shows on the published page at all.  The edit page shows as above.

Update 2:  On a 100% BLOCKS test site with 2025 Theme and only Block editors and no plugins, the Page Source Code shows:  “< span id=”more-149″ >”  but the browser is still ignoring that, so it does not show on the published page.

@Weaver

Just saw your comment about a “More Block”.  I just used that and the edit page code is the same as before, but it only gives the same non-result as in Update 2.

FYI, “More Block” just gives

< !-- wp : more -- >
< !--more-- >
< !-- / wp : more -- >

on edit page.  So no different than before.

FYI, I just tried two of the “Read More” plugins and they seem to be designed now for SEO reasons to hide the additional text on the page until the button is pressed to reveal it.  Not sure if that was the same before……. as I never used it.

My limited test experience is that they may work, but are a bundle of work to set up as each is tailored to its use and location.  Not just a case of inserting the link…. and it works.  So glad I don’t need to use those plugins.

@ecat

Sadly, from my testing, I don’t think that this failure you are suffering is Theme issue, but the “Read More” plugins (described above) do work and hide text till the “more” button is pressed.

I found them a bit of a chore to set up, so you may want to test which is the better and more suitable for your site and customization needs.

Update:

Here is a simple CSS-PHP solution for you:   https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_js_read_more.asp

Regards!

[Author]

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