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1. 

   Marcus
   Member

   I am trying to replace the annoying [...] auto-appended at the end of excerpts with a 'read more' link that clicks through to the full post. This bit of code is floating around in various forums that seems to work for others:

   function excerpt_ellipse($text) {
      return str_replace('[...]', ' <a href="'.get_permalink().'">
   Read more ...</a>', $text); }
   add_filter('the_excerpt', 'excerpt_ellipse');

   Seems simple enough, but when I drop it in my child theme's functions.php, my excerpts stay the same, still with the [...]

   Is there something about how Thematic handles excerpts differently that would prevent the above from working? Is there something else I need to filter that I'm not aware of?

   Thanks much!

   Posted 2 years ago #
2. 

   Chris
   Moderator

   Hi,

   Thematic is using get_the_expert() .. change your last line to:

   add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'excerpt_ellipse');

   Chris

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   Marcus
   Member

   Thank you so much, Chris. That did it. Your dedication to these forums is invaluable, and Thematic is a tremendous tool.

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. 

   daveread
   Member

   How about making the excerpts on category/archives pages also end with a clickable "read more..."?

   Posted 2 years ago #
5. 

   jconroy
   Member

   When I use Marcus' filter I end up with an extra line break before the read more link. Any ideas what would be doing it?. If I remove the filter the [...] is back and the line break is gone.

   Posted 2 years ago #
6. 

   em hr
   Moderator

   Testing the code above I don't see the line break. Maybe its a copy & paste problem. There is line wrap in the code above before the "read more" bit. I can't see why it'd matter but try removing all the extra spaces between <a href="'.get_permalink().'"> and Read more ...</a>'

   Posted 2 years ago #
7. 

   jconroy
   Member

   Thanks for the response em hr - tried that initially. Still no good.

   I also cannot change the excerpt length using the following snipped (and with other plugins) which is frustrating me to no end.

   function new_excerpt_length($length) {
   return 20;
   }
   add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');

   Posted 2 years ago #
8. 

   jconroy
   Member

   Ok Seems like something weird is going on with the child theme I am working on. All the functions are working another clean install.

   Posted 2 years ago #
9. 

   jconroy
   Member

   Found the culprit - wordTube. Deactivated it and all the excerpt functionality is working properly.

   Posted 2 years ago #
10. 

    whatsthebigidea
    Member

    Thanks! Here is what I added to my Acamas functions.php"

    
function childtheme_content($content) {
if (is_home() || is_front_page()) {
$content= 'excerpt';}
return $content;
}
add_filter('thematic_content', 'childtheme_content');

    function excerpt_ellipse($text) {
    return str_replace('[...]', '
    Read more ...', $text); }
    add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'excerpt_ellipse');

    function new_excerpt_length($length) {
return 20;
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');


    Posted 2 years ago #
11. 

    noumaan
    Member

    I am a total newbie to child theme development.

    I have a question, using @whatsthebigidea's code I am able to get the excerpts with Read more at the end. Now how do I make this Read more a link to the post?

    Posted 6 months ago #
12. 

    ScottNix
    Member

    Looks like his code got mangled and the link turned active.
    

    <a href="'.get_permalink().'" class="more-link">Read more &raquo;</a>

    Will link to the post, although feel free to modify the class and Read More text

    Posted 6 months ago #
13. 

    noumaan
    Member

    @scottNix Thank you it worked

    Posted 6 months ago #

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