Add/Modify "Read More" Button

There is already a Read More button for the Classik theme portfolio.  Check out the demo – http://demo.appfinite.com/classik/portfolio/

To get it to work, you’ll need to go to your Genesis Theme Settings, scroll to the bottom for the Portfolio Options and change “Select one of the following” to “Display Post Content” and then add the content limit….then it should show up.

If you need to change the Read More text to say something different, you’ll need to edit  this in your page_portfolio.php file of the theme.

To use the excerpt go into your page_portfolio.php file and change this –

/** Customize the read more link */
add_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'custom_read_more_link' );
function custom_read_more_link() {
return '... <a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '" rel="nofollow">Read More</a>';
}

To this –

/** Customize the read more link */
add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'custom_read_more_link' );
add_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'custom_read_more_link' );
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'custom_read_more_link' );
function custom_read_more_link() {
return '... <a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '" rel="nofollow">Read More</a>';
}

What is your link again?

I did the exact steps above and it worked for me using the Classik theme.  Double check that you are adding the code in correctly on the page_portfolio.php file (replacing the existing code).  You can also take a look at how to add the read more button here – http://www.studiopress.com/tutorials/post-excerpts#content-more-link

Make sure you have the more link enabled on your posts.

The code you just pasted is different than the code I pasted above.  Copy the code I pasted earlier exactly as it is inside your page_portfolio.php file and it should work.

I tested your code and noticed the apostrophes were different, and the last line of code didn’t match as well.  So the issue appears to be just the code itself.

Here is what happens for me once I select the “Excerpts” option in the Portfolio settings and add the code I pasted earlier – http://i.imgur.com/nLIAh.png

My last statement was actually referring to adding more tags in your posts if you haven’t already, but that shouldn’t effect rather the read more button shows or not.  Again, the reason it wasn’t showing was due to your code being different than what I pasted earlier.  So once you add in the correct code above, it should work, and you can rename the “Read More” to whatever you want it to say….just make sure and leave everything else as is or it will cause another error.

Let me know if you get it working.

The code that you just pasted above is showing differently than what I pasted.  Its your apostrophes.

When I paste the code I posted earlier it works, but when I paste your code it shows errors, and its due to your apostrophes.  Maybe your keyboard settings are different or something.

If you can create a temporary login, I can go in and quickly paste the correct code in for you and it will work.

I just took a quick look, but I’m not sure why its not working, there is definitely something else preventing it from working.  The code is the same, I think it was just showing up weird when you posted it here in the forum, so thats not whats causing it.

I noticed you had a few plugins installed,  I would try deactivating each one to see if it makes a difference (make sure you have the excerpt option enabled while testing this).