WordPress Excerpts: How to Display a Read More link
To prevent duplicate content, improve site load time, and for better SEO many bloggers have started to use post excerpts. Excerpts are mini-descriptions of the posts shown on the main blog page, category pages, and archive pages. You can see a live example by visiting any of our categories. But if you notice, our read more button is added on a separate line from the excerpt text. In this article, we will show you how to automatically add a read more link in WordPress Excerpts. First open your functions.php file, and paste the following code inside the php tags: 1 // Changing excerpt more 2 function new_excerpt_more( $more ) { 3 global $post ; 4 return '… <a href="' . get_permalink( $post ->ID) . '">' . 'Read More »' . '</a>' ; 5 } 6 add_filter( 'excerpt_more' , 'new_exce...