how can I add a “read more” tag directly in the template?
The code would probably be something like this: echo ‘<a href=”‘ . get_permalink() . “#more-{$post->ID}\” class=\”more-link\”>”.__( ‘Read more >’, ‘your-theme’ ). ‘</a>’; Check out the source on how WordPress does it: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.3.1/wp-includes/post-template.php#L219 This has to be inside the loop to work and the $post global has to be visible in the current scope.