Hello,
That is correct. We’ve re-written the plugin – and now handle things differently. The plugin now follows WordPress core standards, and we’ve removed any non-core function that was causing some glitchy issues.
Before we were using a very hacky work around to generate an excerpt with HTML in it – which was causing a ton of issues for many of our users. This was not the best way to handle things, and thus has since been re-written to use the standard function the_excerpt().
However, we have also included a new templating system to allow for users to customize the announcement containers on the timeline as well as the single announcement pages.
You can just as easily remove the_excerpt() and replace it with a custom function to generate the necessary markup that you need.
Our new documentation is on the following page:
http://www.wp-timelineexpress.com/documentation/customize-announcement-container/
If you are a pro user, just head into the settings page and re-enable legacy support to get your old styles back (although the excerpt isn’t going to include HTML markup). (http://www.wp-timelineexpress.com/documentation/updated-timeline-express-pro-v1-2-timeline-different/)
The reason for the read more button not showing up, is becuase your excerpts are not long enough to warrant a read more link. I would recommend increasing the length of your excerpts, so that the read more link is generated – or just customizing the announcement container template and add a ‘Read More’ link wherever you need it.
Thanks,
Evan
I am closing out this issue due to inactivity.
If you are still having issues – feel free to open a new thread.
Thank you,
Evan
