Title: Sorting out the loop when using the page “more” function
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Sorting out the loop when using the page “more” function

 *  [rkgneuschul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rkgneuschul/)
 * (@rkgneuschul)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-out-the-loop-when-using-the-page-more-function/)
 * The “more” and “next page” tags work as expected when a site is set up such that
   the blog is the front end [home] of the site.
 * However when the site is set up such that a static page is home and the blog 
   appears elsewhere on the site then these two tags will fail when used in static
   pages. The links for “More” or “Page N N” appear at the foot of the relevant 
   page, but clicking on the links returns an error “Post not found” with a search
   box.
    Clearly, the URL which the more or next page links are pointing to cannot
   be found, and changing the permalink structure in various ways makes absolutely
   no difference to the result: the link is still not found.
 * This failure happens when using either Classic or Default themes, as well as 
   with various custom themes, so I conclude that it isn’t simply a matter of how
   a theme is constructed; there has to be a more fundamental flaw somewhere which
   so far I’ve failed to discover or understand.
 * Various people have reported similar things in several places over the last few
   months; various suggestions for code changes have been made. As far as I can 
   tell none of these suggestions work and the issue remains unresolved.
 * I’ve done a fair bit of reading here and elsewhere about how the loop works and
   I’m probably more confused now than when I started.
 * Could somebody please explain how changing a site from blog as front end to static
   page as front end will so affect the loop that these two page markup tags break
   in this way.
 * Many thanks,
 * Robert

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-out-the-loop-when-using-the-page-more-function/#post-1184480)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More#Read_More_is_ignored_on_front_.28home.29_page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More#Read_More_is_ignored_on_front_.28home.29_page)
 *  Thread Starter [rkgneuschul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rkgneuschul/)
 * (@rkgneuschul)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-out-the-loop-when-using-the-page-more-function/#post-1184734)
 * Thanks, but that was one of the things I’d already read.
    Adding
 * global $more;
    $more = 0;
 * does not fix this issue in WP 2.7 or 2.8.n – at least not for me on three different
   sites.

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sorting-out-the-loop-when-using-the-page-more-function/#post-1184734)
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