Title: ‘More’ functionality not working correctly Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # ‘More’ functionality not working correctly * [jonbuda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonbuda/) * (@jonbuda) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-functionality-not-working-correctly/) * I am trying to list a number of posts and use the <–more–> functionality to show only part of the post. However it keeps showing the entire post. I have the <– more–> tag in the content and call the content with the_content(‘Read Entry’); * I have this working fine on another site. The only thing I can think of is that I am listing the posts on a separate page from the index.php. So I set up a ‘ news’ template and within that I use query_posts(); to call the posts and then list them. Does the more function only work on the index page or the archives page? Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [Avenir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/avenir/) * (@avenir) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-functionality-not-working-correctly/#post-192621) * Well, if you’re using <–more–>, that’s your problem right there. The tag is ` `, HTML comment style. Have you been clicking the ‘More’ quicktag button in the edit screen, or have you been writing the tag in yourself? * [mattread](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattread/) * (@mattread) * [21 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-functionality-not-working-correctly/#post-192624) * jonbuda, when you say a ‘news’ template, do you mean you have a “page” that you use to load that template. If so then WP will assume you are viewing a single page and thus show the the entire post as it should for a single page/post. * So to overcome this you need to set the `$more` variable to false just before you call `the_content()` as follows: * `` * [kappaluppa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kappaluppa/) * (@kappaluppa) * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-functionality-not-working-correctly/#post-193096) * Wow! THanks, MattRead! I was having the same problem as jonbuda, and yours is the only suggestion that hit the nail on the head. I don’t think I would have EVER figured that out! Kathy * [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/) * (@3stripe) * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-functionality-not-working-correctly/#post-193158) * That is a great tip Matt, I spent ages looking in the codex but it’s not there I don’t think! Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘‘More’ functionality not working correctly’ is closed to new replies. * 4 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [3stripe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3stripe/) * Last activity: [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-functionality-not-working-correctly/#post-193158) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics