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 '... <a href="' . get_permalink() . '">[Read 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!
Thank you! Was trying to figure out how to do this for ages, and even the genesis/studiopress website didn’t explain it clearly.
That exactly why I post things like this … if I had trouble finding it, I figure others have too. Hope it was helpful.
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!
FANTASTIC!!
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.
Thanks for sharing! It’s people like you that make it easier for us coding dummies to keep things going.
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much! Works perfectly and exactly what I needed. You’re a peach!
Thank you for posting this. It worked wonders for my blog. Just want I needed.
Glad to hear it! I refer back to this one alot.
Thank you. It was immediately helpful.
Thanks for your sharing 🙂
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