Readmore link for excerpts as well as content limit

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March 18, 2014 at 4:40 pm #11358
stinkykong
Customer
My Genesis Theme settings are set to display “excerpts” in the archive
listings. I want “readmore” links to appear on all excerpts.

I added this to functions.php in attempt to make “read more” links appear:

function new_excerpt_more($more) {
global $post;
return ‘ [Read more…]’;
}
add_filter(‘excerpt_more’, ‘new_excerpt_more’);

However, when I add the excerpt to a post, the readmore link disappears.
Is there a way to make the readmore link show even when an excerpt is
added? Perhaps a better script for functions.php?

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http://tcgihost.com/~rhumc/category/sermons/
March 18, 2014 at 11:42 pm #11370
Wes
Moderator
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to get it working either.

I’ve tried different types of code/tutorials, but the Read More link still disappears when adding a “More” tag or changing the settings to excerpts.
March 19, 2014 at 6:39 am #11380
stinkykong
Customer
Wes, do you know a way I could manually add a link inside the excerpt I add that links to its page from the archive, something like <a href="get_page_url">[Read More...]"</a>

OR

is there a way to get the content limit to keep from discarding the formatting so that line breaks, links, CSS rules, etc remain in effect?
March 19, 2014 at 8:19 pm #11388
Wes
Moderator
I’ve actually tried both of those suggestions in the past, and couldn’t get it working.

I’ll send an email to another developer to see if they know what’s going on. It seemed like it worked fine in the past (before Genesis 2.0) so either I’m doing something wrong, or they removed that feature.
April 16, 2014 at 12:18 pm #11759
sliceofscifi
Customer
I believe I originally found this snippet a couple of years ago from a tutorial at Studio Grasshopper, since I was always using manual excerpts and the StudioPress snippets were meant for automatic excerpts:
```
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'manual_excerpt_more');
function manual_excerpt_more($excerpt) {
$excerpt_more = '';
if( has_excerpt() ) {
$excerpt_more = ' &nbsp; <a href="'.get_permalink().'" rel="nofollow">[Read more...]</a>';
}
return $excerpt . $excerpt_more;
}
```
I have this on several sites running Genesis 2.0 and various HTML5 child themes, and since I tend to use manual excerpts 99.9% of the time, I know it’s still working 🙂 Maybe it can help…
April 16, 2014 at 12:28 pm #11760
stinkykong
Customer
That seems to work fine for me using Ally. I’ll have to make a note of this. Thanks, so much!!
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