More Tag

[gcollignon]

Hi, thanks for all the great support in your forums.. keep up the great work!!!

I am using an excerpt plugin and I want to know how to use the “more tag” option. I want everybody to be able to see all posts but only the excerpts and then if they want to read more they can sign up for a free membership. The free membership will give them access to some see the full article of some posts not all and then the paid membership will give them access to other posts. But I want everyone who visits the site to be able to see the excerpts.

I am new to wordpress so I’d really appreciate a step by step explanation (i don’t even know how to use tags, imagine!)

[amin007]

It’s pretty simple. You simply check the “Enable More Tag Protection” checkbox from the settings menu of the plugin. Now when you protect an article that has a more tag in it, the article will only show the content before the more tag on your blog page. When a visitor clicks the “Read More” link it will tell them to log in to view the rest of the content. So your visitors will have to have the appropriate membership to view the content.

[gcollignon]

It is not working

I want to protect that post, only to be viewable for memberships 2,3. But when I protect it it doesn’t allow excerpts

I am writing at the beginning of the post

[emember_protected for=2-3]

then the content of the post and then

[/emember_protected]

I have the more tag option selected in the settings

When I go to the Home page (were all the excerpts are showing) the only thing I can see in that post is the “more…” tag not the excerpt.

And I don’t want to protect the whole category I want to protect some posts.

[amin007]

The shortcode you are using is for protecting a section of a post:

[emember_protected for=2-3]

You don’t need it here. You simply protect the article from the “Manage Content Protection” menu. You can watch the video tutorial here (the 4th video):

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wordpress-membership/wp-emember-quick-setup-and-usage-video-tutorial-132

[gcollignon]

But I want several memberships to be able to see that article. If I do it the way the video says I need to do it several times (one for each membership) on a single post, the other way I just write down that code. It is also more difficult to find a post in the “manage content protection” tab when you have a lot of posts.

[gcollignon]

BTW, I just did it the way you said, from the “manage content protection tab” and instead of being able to see the excerpt it show this – Please Login to view this Content.(Not a member? Join Today!-

[amin007]

Can you please post a link to your blog page?

[gcollignon]

theentrepreneurslounge.com

You’ll see in the Home page that the posts that are protected are the ones with the title:

Business – which is protected with [emember_protected for=2-3]

Business Development Programs – which is protected as you told me to, from the content management option in the settings menu.

I appreciate if you could take a look, because I don’t want any one to be able to see the blog until it is ready to launch.

Thanks!

[gcollignon]

If I am going to have three levels of membership and I’ll be protecting different content, does the plugin tells the visitor something like “this post is only for “Premium” members” can it say what kind of membership you need to access. My concern is what if they subcribe to a membership that does not have access to what they are looking for.

Thanks

[amin007]

Thanks for the link. I think we were talking about different things. The more tag protection is for blog posts. It doesn’t work on pages by default because WordPress does not allow it. You can read all about it here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More#How_to_use_Read_More_in_Pages

Anyway, here is what WordPress says:

“Please remember that the “Read More” tag is used only on the Home page which shows the latest posts. It does not work in “Pages”.”

with that said I think your best option would be to use the section protection (which you are already doing). You only need to protect the content that’s after the more tag. So your page structure will look something similar to the following:

---

Start of a page

---

Teaser content

<--more tag-->

[emember_protected for=2-3]

Your secret stuff

[/emember_protected]

---

End of a page

---

[gcollignon]

Hi Amin,, thanks for your response, but if you take a better look I am talking about posts not pages,, in the home page I am showing my posts and you can see that the two posts

Business – which is protected with [emember_protected for=2-3]

and

Business Development Programs – which is protected as you told me to, from the content management option in the settings menu.

They are showing in the “Home” page and I am not able to see anything using the tag.

Also what you see in the menu bar the Post Categories, those are not pages. So also if you click into the Business Category you’ll see that the protection with the more tag is not working

Thanks

[Ivy]

Hi, I have sent you an email regarding this issue. Please let me know if you do not receive this email.

Cheers,

Ivy

[gcollignon]

Hi Ivy,, the only email I received was a form to access my site, is that it?

Thanks

Gabriel

[Ivy]

Hi, Yep that was the email. Thanks for filling it out. We will login shortly.

Cheers,

Ivy

[amin007]

Turned out that the theme coding was bad. You can read this article to learn more about bad theme code and it’s impacts:

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/when-themes-go-wild-importance-of-using-a-properly-coded-wordpress-theme-2270

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