More Tag custom text disappearing

[mikebuffington]

When I make a post on wordpress (2.8.4 running on my server) via the web and use the custom more tag like this:

<!--more Custom Text-->

It fails to show up in the iPhone version. It only shows:

<!--more-->

when I look at posts on the iPhone. If I update the post via the iPhone, the custom text disappears from the website. Just looking at the post on the iPhone does not affect the blog post.

[iammattthomas]

I've confirmed this is fixed as of r609.

[iammattthomas]

Jumped the gun here. While adding a new custom more tag works from the app, it disappears when you re-open the post (or open any post that includes a custom more tag).

[iammattthomas]

This is a pre-existing issue in version 1.3.

I can type a custom tag, like:

<!--more Continue Reading-->

and when I save, the post on the web correctly uses "Continue Reading" as a link to the rest of the article. However, when I re-open the post for editing within the iPhone app, it shows me only this:

<!--more-->

If I make other changes and save the article, the "Continue Reading" is indeed stripped out and I'm left with a more tag with no custom title.

I'll assign this to Sunil since it's an issue unrelated to the changes in 1.4.

[janakirampalepu]

While saving the post, in the request along with all the values we send the description along with <more> tag with Custom text (if any) to server.

But in the response from server, the description doesn't contain any tag named <more> . By analyzing its observed that the description content is divided into two keys "description" and "mt_text_more" (if there was a more tag in the request),

In the Response The "description" key contains all the values that appeared before <more> and the "mt_text_more" contains the rest values of the description after the <more> tag .

The <!--more Continue Reading--> is missing in the Response from server itself.

[josephscott]

I think that's correct, WP doesn't provide the custom more text back to clients when requesting post information. I've created a WP ticket about this -  http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10933

[iammattthomas]

Thanks Joseph. We'll take another look at this in the next milestone.

[iammattthomas]

The related ticket in core has been punted to a future release, so we'll have to do so too for the time being.