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September 17, 2013 By Debbie 13 Comments

Adding the [Read More] Link in Genesis

One of the wonderful thing about wordpress is that it allows you to use excerpts of your full post as a “teaser” to for your readers. However, at the end of the excerpt, a standard […] appears where the text stop. The problem is that it doesn’t link to the rest of the story. I always fear that a reader might not realize that by clicking the heading, it will link to the story. So, here is the solution I found for our themes, using Genesis Framework.

Within your child theme’s functions.php file, insert the following:

// Add Read More Link to Excerpts
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'get_read_more_link');
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'get_read_more_link' );
function get_read_more_link() {
   return '...&nbsp;<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">[Read&nbsp;More]</a>';
}

You can change the [Read More] to whatever terminology you want. We chose [keep reading]I hope this helps someone, as it did me.

Happy coding!

Filed Under: Code Tips, TechTalk, WordPress

Comments

  1. Joseph Daniels says

    December 7, 2013 at 5:15 pm

    Thank you! Was trying to figure out how to do this for ages, and even the genesis/studiopress website didn’t explain it clearly.

    Reply
    • Flying Change says

      December 9, 2013 at 10:28 am

      That exactly why I post things like this … if I had trouble finding it, I figure others have too. Hope it was helpful.

      Reply
  2. Kim Phoenix says

    February 9, 2014 at 3:51 pm

    Thank you so much for posting this! I could not figure out how to do this, and I searched and searched. I actually am using Dynamik with Genesis, but I got it to work with that too!

    Reply
    • Flying Change says

      February 9, 2014 at 4:14 pm

      FANTASTIC!!

      Reply
  3. Joyce says

    July 22, 2014 at 6:29 pm

    Thank you so VERY much; I have spent days–weeks really–trying to find out how to handle this. I was so happy when I saw my pages were working correctly.

    Reply
  4. Ben @ The Wealth Gospel says

    August 31, 2014 at 10:08 pm

    Thanks for sharing! It’s people like you that make it easier for us coding dummies to keep things going.

    Reply
    • Debbie says

      August 31, 2014 at 10:27 pm

      Glad it helped!

      Reply
  5. Patty J. Ayers says

    October 17, 2014 at 1:30 pm

    Thank you so much! Works perfectly and exactly what I needed. You’re a peach!

    Reply
  6. Nicholas Scalice says

    May 20, 2015 at 9:56 pm

    Thank you for posting this. It worked wonders for my blog. Just want I needed.

    Reply
    • Debbie says

      May 21, 2015 at 6:29 am

      Glad to hear it! I refer back to this one alot.

      Reply
  7. VIpin says

    June 7, 2015 at 9:09 am

    Thank you. It was immediately helpful.

    Reply
  8. Agence Debord says

    January 30, 2017 at 5:15 am

    Thanks for your sharing ๐Ÿ™‚

    Reply
    • Debbie says

      January 30, 2017 at 8:57 am

      ๐Ÿ˜€

      Reply

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