Suppress "Continue Reading" from blog entries on index pages if they do not have an excerpt marker

[wez]

Context

See the discussion in #6759

Description

If I use the marker to define the cut point for an excerpt, the index page works as I'd expect; the content before the marker is used as an excerpt and then the "Continue Reading" link takes the visitor to the full content for that post. All good.

However, if I omit the marker then the entire content is used in the index page (which is what I'd expect), AND "Continue Reading" is shown below it. That gives the visitor the expectation that there is more to read in that case, but when they click through they are disappointed.

I propose that the "Continue Reading" link be omitted in that second case.

Related links

• Refine "Continue Reading" link in the blog index page #6759

Use Cases

See discussion in #6759

Visuals

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[squidfunk]

Fixed in b7fc7ba. The post.more attribute now contains the content after the post separator. Template authors can decide to render the entire content on the overview page and make it expandable. This allows for more flexibility than just providing a boolean indicator, which is why we went for it. The continue reading link should now be automatically removed if there is no separator and/or nothing more to read (= the separator is at the very end of the Markdown).

[squidfunk]

Released as part of 9.5.10.