“More” span making trouble

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I’ve created my own custom post type using this tutorial: http://thinkvitamin.com/code/create-your-first-wordpress-custom-post-type/

Everything works fine, but I’m having major problem with “Read more” feature.

As we all know <!--more--> adds <span id="more-[number]" /> at the start of hidden more paragraph. In my case this span breaks whole markup.

See for yourself:

    <p>This is normal paragraph and should be visible everywhere.</p>

    <!-- everything below is available only after clicking "Read more..." button -->

    <p><span id="more-[postnumber] />This is read "more" paragraph that will be displayed only on a "single" page.</p>
    <p>And another "more" paragraph.</p>

In my case it creates this strange code:

  <p>This is normal paragraph and should be visible everywhere.<br/>
  <span id="more-[postnumber] /></br>This is read "more" paragraph that will be displayed only on a "single" page.</p>
  <p>And another "more" paragraph.</p>

So the more feature in my case doesn’t even work and doesn’t even display “Read more” button.

Any ideas?

[EDITED]

Ok, so I’ve added whitespace after and before my <!--more--> tag, so the post looks like this in admin panel now:

This is normal paragraph and should be visible everywhere.

<!--more-->

This is read "more" paragraph that will be displayed only on a "single" page.

And another "more" paragraph.

And it outputs the whole text because more span is getting an additional paragraph (why? :O):

<p>This is normal paragraph and should be visible everywhere.</p>
<p><span id="more-[postnumber] /></p> <!-- I believe it shouldn't be in the additional <p> tag and that's the point -->
<p>This is read "more" paragraph that will be displayed only on a "single" page.</p>
<p>And another "more" paragraph.</p>

And about “more button” – I’m using the_content unfortunately…

And nothing helps, when I type ‘TRUE’ as the second parameter – the_content(‘Read more…’, TRUE); – it hides everything BEFORE more tag (so it shows two last paragraphs and hides the first one).

What’s that? :O

2 Answers
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So, two separate issues – links not displaying and faulty markup?

For links not displaying – check if your template uses the_content() function, more functionality doesn’t display links after the_excerpt().

For markup I find that you need blank lines around more for everything to work properly.

So this can cause markup issues:

Some text here.
<!--more-->
And more here.

But this works fine:

Some text here.

<!--more-->

And more here.

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