Title: Latest Posts Block Won’t Show Post Code Last modified: February 4, 2021 --- # Latest Posts Block Won’t Show Post Code * [iamPariah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iampariah/) * (@iampariah) * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-posts-block-wont-show-post-code/) * I’m trying to build a home page out of blocks for the first time. None of the blocks I try, the built-in Latest Posts block, plugins from Gutenberg Post Blocks, and Ultimate blocks, show the actual post content before the More tag. * Is WP 5.x (currently 5.6.0) unable to display post content before a More tag? * Screenshots: * Here is what my home page looks like without blocks, just a standard index.php with a loop. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/gnnbn2tsmm6ndut/Screen%20Shot%202021-02-03%20at%2015.54.11.png?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/gnnbn2tsmm6ndut/Screen%20Shot%202021-02-03%20at%2015.54.11.png?dl=0) * Here is the editor view of one of those posts. Note the embedded MixCloud player and the More tag. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/dksoletw6ls8d3c/Screen%20Shot%202021-02-03%20at%2015.55.10.png?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/dksoletw6ls8d3c/Screen%20Shot%202021-02-03%20at%2015.55.10.png?dl=0) * And here’s the Block Editor showing a Latest Posts block (built into WP) and, below it, a Post List block from the Gutenberg Post Blocks plugin. Neither will show the post content before the More tag. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/i7jxc20ejmvc77c/Screen%20Shot%202021-02-03%20at%2015.57.37.png?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/i7jxc20ejmvc77c/Screen%20Shot%202021-02-03%20at%2015.57.37.png?dl=0) * If I turn on Full Post, as you can see here, the embed code DOES show. [https://www.dropbox.com/s/jo9rl75h8nyw4lz/Screen%20Shot%202021-02-03%20at%2016.00.56.png?dl=0](https://www.dropbox.com/s/jo9rl75h8nyw4lz/Screen%20Shot%202021-02-03%20at%2016.00.56.png?dl=0) * I would really like to move into the future with the Block editor, so how I get WP’s post blocks to display content before a More tag like a template loop does? Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/) * (@joyously) * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-posts-block-wont-show-post-code/#post-13999961) * You are misunderstanding how the More tag works. The More tag is only active on list pages (like archive or index) that show full content. The theme controls whether the content or the excerpt is shown, and some themes have an option you can toggle. But on single pages, like a static home page, the More tag is not active, not even for a list type of block like Latest Posts block. * Thread Starter [iamPariah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iampariah/) * (@iampariah) * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-posts-block-wont-show-post-code/#post-13999980) * Thanks, Joy. * So, there’s no way to show post content before the More tag on a static home page? * Is there a way to edit the index.php with the Block Editor, so that I can create Latest Posts blocks that correctly show post content from before the More tag? * The embedded iframe code DOES work in the Excerpt field, but it’s inefficient to include the same code in two locations in the same table record. * [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/) * (@joyously) * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-posts-block-wont-show-post-code/#post-14000088) * > So, there’s no way to show post content before the More tag on a static home > page? * The More tag is inactive when the main query is the static page. The core blocks don’t change this. But some third party block might. I haven’t looked. * > Is there a way to edit the index.php with the Block Editor * Not yet, but they are working on Full Site Editing. But you only use index.php as a fallback when there is no more specific template to handle the query. If you make a child theme and a home.php, that template would be used for the list of posts. You can put code for whatever else you wanted to put onto your home page in there. (copy index.php to home.php and add the other content) * Thread Starter [iamPariah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iampariah/) * (@iampariah) * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-posts-block-wont-show-post-code/#post-14000136) * Okay. Thank you. I think I’m just going to stick with Classic Editor and editing( child) theme PHP and CSS for now. I’ve been working with WP since 2004, and the more I do with blocks, the more limiting I find them. - This reply was modified 5 years, 4 months ago by [iamPariah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iampariah/). Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Latest Posts Block Won’t Show Post Code’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [block](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/block/) * [excerpt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/excerpt/) * [loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/loop/) * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [iamPariah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iampariah/) * Last activity: [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/latest-posts-block-wont-show-post-code/#post-14000136) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics