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ThemeShaper Forums Tag: read more http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Fri, 24 May 2013 08:50:25 +0000 simonafilote on "Enclosing Excerpt in Paragraph tag & adding a custom Read more Link" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/enclosing-excerpt-in-paragraph-tag-038-adding-a-custom-read-more-link#post-25348 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:38:06 +0000 simonafilote 25348@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ yes! I made it :) thanks again for all the help Helga. helgatheviking on "Enclosing Excerpt in Paragraph tag & adding a custom Read more Link" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/enclosing-excerpt-in-paragraph-tag-038-adding-a-custom-read-more-link#post-25346 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:11:36 +0000 helgatheviking 25346@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ i presume you mean you don't want it to be a paragraph. remove the paragraph tags that surround the link. simonafilote on "Enclosing Excerpt in Paragraph tag & adding a custom Read more Link" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/enclosing-excerpt-in-paragraph-tag-038-adding-a-custom-read-more-link#post-25343 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:51:59 +0000 simonafilote 25343@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Thanks so much for this Helga, now I see how this works... One final question, what bit of code should I remove from here to avoid the more link+image to go one line lower? helgatheviking on "Enclosing Excerpt in Paragraph tag & adding a custom Read more Link" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/enclosing-excerpt-in-paragraph-tag-038-adding-a-custom-read-more-link#post-25336 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:11:51 +0000 helgatheviking 25336@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ your code is wrong and will cause your links to look like: ID)">a.more-link if it doesn't cause a parse error a.more-link means the A element has a class="more-link" <pre><code>// excerpt read more links and wrap excerpt in p tag function all_excerpts_get_more_link($post_excerpt) { return $post_excerpt . '<a class="more-link" href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . 'Continue Reading &raquo' . '</a>'; } add_filter('wp_trim_excerpt', 'all_excerpts_get_more_link');</code></pre> btw- code goes between backticks ` and not apostrophes '. simonafilote on "Enclosing Excerpt in Paragraph tag & adding a custom Read more Link" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/enclosing-excerpt-in-paragraph-tag-038-adding-a-custom-read-more-link#post-25335 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:06:15 +0000 simonafilote 25335@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Thanks for your response, Helga. Indeed, I was referring to the post directly above mine. And I think I understand what yoú're saying, but I don't know exactly how to do that. I've only used the a.more-link code from someone else and don't really know how to work with classes. Should I modify your code like this? Hm, it doesn't look right :) Can you please help me out a bit? <pre><code>// excerpt read more links and wrap excerpt in p tag function all_excerpts_get_more_link($post_excerpt) { return $post_excerpt . '<a>ID) . '">' . 'a.more-link' . '</a>'; } add_filter('wp_trim_excerpt', 'all_excerpts_get_more_link');</code></pre> helgatheviking on "Enclosing Excerpt in Paragraph tag & adding a custom Read more Link" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/enclosing-excerpt-in-paragraph-tag-038-adding-a-custom-read-more-link#post-25331 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:33:53 +0000 helgatheviking 25331@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ if you are referring to the post directly above yours... then the a link has no .more-link class, so your style would never get applied. just add your class to the link. simonafilote on "Enclosing Excerpt in Paragraph tag & adding a custom Read more Link" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/enclosing-excerpt-in-paragraph-tag-038-adding-a-custom-read-more-link#post-25327 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:26:46 +0000 simonafilote 25327@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi Helga I've used the latest code you shared above to add the read more tag on category archive pages (on my blog menu items take you to category pages) and it worked fine. However, I would like to display the more link in the same style I did on the blog homepage (crumbs-of-life.net), where I used an image, but can't figure out how to do that. I used CSS to style the read more tag on the homepage: <pre><code>.post a.more-link { background: url("images/read-more.png") no-repeat scroll 3px 10px transparent !important; color: #E9E9E9 !important; display: block; float: right; font-size: 0; font-weight: 700; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 25px; overflow: hidden; padding: 25px 59px; text-decoration: none; }</code></pre> I would very much appreciate your advice on this. noumaan on "'Read more' link in excerpt redux" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/read-more-link-in-excerpt-redux#post-22481 Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:30:42 +0000 noumaan 22481@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ @scottNix Thank you it worked ScottNix on "'Read more' link in excerpt redux" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/read-more-link-in-excerpt-redux#post-22476 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:57:49 +0000 ScottNix 22476@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Looks like his code got mangled and the link turned active. <pre><code><a href="'.get_permalink().'" class="more-link">Read more &raquo;</a></code></pre> Will link to the post, although feel free to modify the class and Read More text noumaan on "'Read more' link in excerpt redux" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/read-more-link-in-excerpt-redux#post-22475 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:38:09 +0000 noumaan 22475@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ 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? helgatheviking on "Enclosing Excerpt in Paragraph tag & adding a custom Read more Link" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/enclosing-excerpt-in-paragraph-tag-038-adding-a-custom-read-more-link#post-22036 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:38:19 +0000 helgatheviking 22036@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ umm did you even try? b/c well... not wrapping the excerpt in paragraph tags is as simple as NOT wrapping the excerpt in paragraph tags. <pre><code>// excerpt read more links and wrap excerpt in p tag function all_excerpts_get_more_link($post_excerpt) { return $post_excerpt . '<a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . 'Continue Reading &raquo' . '</a>'; } add_filter('wp_trim_excerpt', 'all_excerpts_get_more_link');</code></pre> slobjones on "Enclosing Excerpt in Paragraph tag & adding a custom Read more Link" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/enclosing-excerpt-in-paragraph-tag-038-adding-a-custom-read-more-link#post-22034 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:24:40 +0000 slobjones 22034@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Helga, would you edit your script so it does NOT wrap the excerpt in paragraph tags? The paragraph tags are unnecessary for my purposes and causing validation errors as well. I'd like to use the excerpt read more portion of the script, but I'm not so great at editing functions.php code. Thanks! elderberry on "Replace "Continue Reading" link with page title for SEO" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/replace-continue-reading-link-with-page-title-for-seo#post-19295 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:18:54 +0000 elderberry 19295@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Finally Implemented this but it doesn't work - is there something I missed? <pre><code>//that wraps the thumbnails w/ the permalink... and to use it you just need to put the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail' ) into the excerpt // excerpt read more links and wrap excerpt in p tag function all_excerpts_get_more_link($post_excerpt) { if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { $child_excerpt = the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail' ) . '' . $post_excerpt . ' <a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . 'Continue reading' . the_title() . '&raquo;' . '</a>'; } else { $child_excerpt = '' . $post_excerpt . ' <a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . 'Continue reading' . the_title() . '&raquo;' . '</a>'; } return $child_excerpt; } add_filter('wp_trim_excerpt', 'all_excerpts_get_more_link');</code></pre> elderberry on "Replace "Continue Reading" link with page title for SEO" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/replace-continue-reading-link-with-page-title-for-seo#post-19083 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:05:09 +0000 elderberry 19083@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Great - that's perfect. helgatheviking on "Replace "Continue Reading" link with page title for SEO" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/replace-continue-reading-link-with-page-title-for-seo#post-19076 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:07:46 +0000 helgatheviking 19076@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ yeah, instead of 'Continue Reading &raquo' which is missing a ; (so it should be 'Continue Reading »' replace that with the WordPress function the_title() which gets the post title when you are in a loop. so 'Continue Reading ' . the_title() . '»' elderberry on "Replace "Continue Reading" link with page title for SEO" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/replace-continue-reading-link-with-page-title-for-seo#post-19059 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:42:39 +0000 elderberry 19059@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi All, I've been using this function from Helgatheviking (thanks!), but I would like to see the link text read the destination page (or post) title instead of "Continue Reading. I am a php cut 'n paster :-( Tips? <pre><code>// excerpt read more links and wrap excerpt in p tag function all_excerpts_get_more_link($post_excerpt) { if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { $child_excerpt = the_post_thumbnail( 'thumbnail' ) . '' . $post_excerpt . '' . '<a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . 'Continue Reading &raquo' . '</a>'; } else { $child_excerpt = '' . $post_excerpt . '' . '<a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . 'Continue Reading &raquo' . '</a>'; } return $child_excerpt; } add_filter('wp_trim_excerpt', 'all_excerpts_get_more_link');</code></pre> Caramboo on "Enclosing Excerpt in Paragraph tag & adding a custom Read more Link" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/enclosing-excerpt-in-paragraph-tag-038-adding-a-custom-read-more-link#post-14779 Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:57:51 +0000 Caramboo 14779@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ I just wanted to customise excepts and found my old (and now corrected). I used your method @helgatheviking but you missed off the semi-colon here: <pre><code>'Continue Reading &raquo;'</code></pre> Just in case anyone stumbles in here. ollie on "More Tag Not Showing on Category or Archive Pages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/more-tag-not-showing-on-category-or-archive-pages#post-14107 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:51:47 +0000 ollie 14107@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Thanks guys, I've updated my functions.php and reverted content_extensions.php as suggested and all is well! :o) Thanks again Ollie Chris on "More Tag Not Showing on Category or Archive Pages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/more-tag-not-showing-on-category-or-archive-pages#post-14106 Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:04:36 +0000 Chris 14106@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi, be careful, the silverback might be right behind you ;) You don't need to include all these conditional tags, if you want to switch everything to full content: <pre><code>function childtheme_content($content) { return 'full'; } add_filter('thematic_content', 'childtheme_content');</code></pre> Chris tarpontech on "More Tag Not Showing on Category or Archive Pages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/more-tag-not-showing-on-category-or-archive-pages#post-14100 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:55:42 +0000 tarpontech 14100@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ well...the code-monkey's on here are going to yell at us for doing it that way... The problem you face is if/when you upgrade thematic, it's going to break your customization. The good news is, if this is all you wanted...i didn't realize... I just posted a filter you can cut-n-paste into you childtheme's functions.php to make this happen. Here, revert your changes inside content_extensions.php and use this instead, does the same thing, just future-proofs your theme: <pre><code>function childtheme_content($content) { if (is_home() || is_front_page()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_single()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_tag()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_search()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_category()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_author()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_archive()) { $content = 'full'; } return $content; } add_filter('thematic_content', 'childtheme_content');</code></pre> tarpontech on "More Tag Not Showing on Category or Archive Pages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/more-tag-not-showing-on-category-or-archive-pages#post-14099 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:55:09 +0000 tarpontech 14099@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ well...the code-monkey's on here are going to yell at us for doing it that way... The problem you face is if/when you upgrade thematic, it's going to break your customization. The good news is, if this is all you wanted...i didn't realize... I just posted a filter you can cut-n-paste into you childtheme's functions.php to make this happen. Here, revert your changes inside content_extensions.php and use this instead, does the same thing, just future-proofs your theme: <pre><code>function childtheme_content($content) { if (is_home() || is_front_page()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_single()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_tag()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_search()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_category()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_author()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_archive()) { $content = 'full'; } return $content; } add_filter('thematic_content', 'childtheme_content');</code></pre> ollie on "More Tag Not Showing on Category or Archive Pages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/more-tag-not-showing-on-category-or-archive-pages#post-14088 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:36:06 +0000 ollie 14088@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Cracked it!!! :oD Thanks so much for your help on this Tarpontech, the pointer towards content_extensions.php was just what I needed! Here's what I did: 1. Read through 'content_extensions.php' until I found the '//creates the content' section on line 476. This section specifies how posts should be displayed depending on the page being shown, it can be either 'full' or 'excerpt'. I changed all the page types to 'full' as follows: <pre><code>//creates the content function thematic_content() { if (is_home() || is_front_page()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_single()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_tag()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_search()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_category()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_author()) { $content = 'full'; } elseif (is_archive()) { $content = 'full'; }</code></pre> I know I could leave some of them as excerpt but I went for the blanket approach to test the theory. Now all of my category and archive pages show the post and a 'Read More >' link. I also have a 'Page of Posts' page which is based on a custom template that I found. The more tag doesn't work on it by default but can be enabled by adding the following code in before <code><?php the_content() ?></code> <code><?php $more = false; ?></code> Thanks again Tarpontech, couldn't have done it without your help! Ollie tarpontech on "More Tag Not Showing on Category or Archive Pages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/more-tag-not-showing-on-category-or-archive-pages#post-14084 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:41:38 +0000 tarpontech 14084@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ well, don't know as much about it as I think I do, but shooting from the hip, i'm guessing this is going to take adding the "read more" to the end of the excerpt for these pages via a filter either on the loop itself or just on the excerpt. This is going to take digging into the /thematic/library/extensions/content_extensions.php to see how the read more is added on to the full text so that we can recreate it on the thematic excerpt. Until a ninja shows up to just whip out some code on ya...its going to be a little project. Good news is, between that forum link above, and a few forum searches on "excerpt" should turn up the likely suspects you need to fight with. ollie on "More Tag Not Showing on Category or Archive Pages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/more-tag-not-showing-on-category-or-archive-pages#post-14082 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:02:05 +0000 ollie 14082@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Thanks Tarpontech, I'm halfway there now! I've got a 'PageOfPosts' template set up and it has worked on this page and changed the [...] to 'Read More >' but the archive and category pages are still not showing it. As they stand presently, the category page only shows an excerpt without the elipsis, is there a way to enable this? tarpontech on "More Tag Not Showing on Category or Archive Pages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/more-tag-not-showing-on-category-or-archive-pages#post-14080 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:29:46 +0000 tarpontech 14080@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ just realized I gave you the wrong function...that was used for a very specific issue...doh! Here, this post appears to be the holy grail of what you're looking to do...found it very helpful myself.. <a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/noob-customize-read-more-quicktaghow#post-8140" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/noob-customize-read-more-quicktaghow#post-8140</a> ollie on "More Tag Not Showing on Category or Archive Pages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/more-tag-not-showing-on-category-or-archive-pages#post-14077 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:47:16 +0000 ollie 14077@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi Tarpontech, Many thanks for your reply. I've added the code into my functions.php but still no joy unfortunately. My site address is <a href="http://www.olliemor.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.olliemor.com/</a> Any chance you could take a look and see if there's something obvious that I'm missing please? Thanks again, Ollie tarpontech on "More Tag Not Showing on Category or Archive Pages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/more-tag-not-showing-on-category-or-archive-pages#post-14069 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:11:47 +0000 tarpontech 14069@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ I think this is what you're looking for. Sticking this in your functions.php will change the more link everywhere. <pre><code>//Make new excerpt Link function change_excerpt($content) { $content = str_replace('[...]','...',$content); // remove [...], replace with ... $content = strip_tags($content); // remove HTML return $content; } add_filter('the_excerpt','change_excerpt');</code></pre> ollie on "More Tag Not Showing on Category or Archive Pages" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/more-tag-not-showing-on-category-or-archive-pages#post-14059 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:27:41 +0000 ollie 14059@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Hi, I'm setting up my blog using the latest version of Thematic and the 'More' tag works fine on the front page but is replaced with an elipsis in square brackets [...] on the categor and archive pages. The issue is the same whether I use the default theme or my own child theme. I've tried using the global more tag code (<?php global $more;?>) and this allows me to toggle between showing or hiding the elipsis but I can't get the "Read More..." link to show. This has been frustrating me for a while now so any help would be hugely appreciated. Many thanks Ollie Andrew on "Enclosing Excerpt in Paragraph tag & adding a custom Read more Link" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/enclosing-excerpt-in-paragraph-tag-038-adding-a-custom-read-more-link#post-13713 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:31:38 +0000 Andrew 13713@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Thanks Everyone! Helga, I've used your nice trim code and it works like a charm. Much appreciated yet again! helgatheviking on "Enclosing Excerpt in Paragraph tag & adding a custom Read more Link" http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/enclosing-excerpt-in-paragraph-tag-038-adding-a-custom-read-more-link#post-13437 Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:13:18 +0000 helgatheviking 13437@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ i know this is an old post, but it comes up when searching for stuff on excerpts so i thought i'd through this in for anyone else looking. somewhere i found a post by chris and it solved my issue of not getting a 'read more' type of link on every excerpt (manual and auto). i changed the Read more text to continue reading and wrapped the excerpt in a paragraph. <pre><code>// excerpt read more links and wrap excerpt in p tag function all_excerpts_get_more_link($post_excerpt) { return '' . $post_excerpt . '' . '<a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . 'Continue Reading &raquo' . '</a>'; } add_filter('wp_trim_excerpt', 'all_excerpts_get_more_link');</code></pre>