Although it wasn’t immediately obvious to me, read more links can be enabled by over-riding the global $more variable and setting it to false, before looping through the result set, for example:

global $more; $more = FALSE;
query_posts('post_type=page');
if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
	the_content('Read More...');
endwhile; endif;

I couldn’t actually discover why this is not the default behaviour when querying pages. There may be a good reason behind it, but in my experience I found it mildly irritating.

One of the main reasons for for the lack of updates is due to the stack of work I’ve been attempting to get through and my attempts at redesigning the layout of my blog.

I had a couple of different concepts for the redesign, but this is the design I eventually went with.

Other ideas included a post-it note type design, where the notes were randomly placed on the screen with the ability to drag and re-organise.

Although I liked the idea of randomisation, after putting the design into practice it failed to fulfil it’s purpose of a blog theme. Content was difficult to get to and awkward to locate, so for this reason decided to take a different approach.

The second design couldn’t be more different from the first. I decided against proceeding with this design for a number of reasons. Firstly, the length of each page would have been too long and secondly I didn’t really like it.

My third and final attempt was loosely based on the previous, using a single fixed width column with the sidebar below the main content. The colours were reduced to a single primary colour – orange – with white text on a dark background.

I felt this was going in the right direction and so continued through with the development process to create the current theme, which – to be honest – is nothing special but it’s quite clean, simple and is a bit different.