Title: Activating & Using Custom Post View Generator Breaks "Read More" functionality
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Activating & Using Custom Post View Generator Breaks "Read More" functionality

 *  [kamann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kamann/)
 * (@kamann)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-using-custom-post-view-generator-breaks-read-more-functionality/)
 * After downloading and activating Custom Post View Generator I noticed that the
   core “read more” behavior of my posts was suddenly not working. Basically large/
   lengthy posts that contained a “<!–more–>” tag were suddenly displaying the full
   content of the post on the front page of the website rather than only displaying
   the “fragment” that I had specified in the post.
 * I did some research, and even went so far as to make a few suggested changes 
   to the_loop that people suggested to get the desired behavior, but nothing worked.
 * After walking backwards through the steps that I had done recently I realized
   that I had installed this plugin, so I deactivated the plugin (left it installed),
   and suddenly the “Read More” functionality started working again.
 * I reactivated the plugin (didn’t even bother configuring it) and the “Read More”
   stuff was broken again.
 * I like the plugin, but I don’t like the side effect that it has on the site.
 * You can see the problem on the frontpage at [http://norsesoccer.kwstk.com](http://norsesoccer.kwstk.com).
 * Looking for a correction. Not sure what the plugin is doing, but it is having
   a very undesirable effect.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-view-generator/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-view-generator/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Marco Constancio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marco-constancio/)
 * (@marco-constancio)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-using-custom-post-view-generator-breaks-read-more-functionality/#post-3037885)
 * The problem is that this plugin modifies the the _post content_ and a user adds
   several fields and complex templates IN SOME TEMPLATES you can see html/css code
   when wordpress displays the excerpt on post listing.
 * So I added in my plugin a function called cpvg_process_excerpt that strips the
   tags and some content of the post content and displays it as the excerpt and 
   that is that causes to the “Read More” disappear.
 * I tested again in the latest version and it didn’t seem to display html/ccs code
   so I commented the function.
 * Update to the latest version but if you are viewing code on the excerpt please
   uncomment the line 108 on the index.php on the plugin file.

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 * Last reply from: [Marco Constancio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marco-constancio/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-using-custom-post-view-generator-breaks-read-more-functionality/#post-3037885)
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