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[Rad]

Hi there,

The “read more” is only applicable for excerpt generated by WordPress, and not for excerpt manually added. Example, this text is added to your post’s excerpt in admin.

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If you wish to add “read more” to manually added text, then please add this code to your child theme’s functions.php

add_filter('the_excerpt', 'manual_excerpt_read_more', 9999);

function manual_excerpt_read_more ( $excerpt ) {

global $post;

return empty( $post->post_excerpt ) ? $excerpt : sprintf( '<a class="read-more" href="%1$s">%2$s</a>', get_permalink( get_the_ID() ), __( 'Read More', '__x__ ) );

}

Hope this helps.

[Andrei]

Hi Rad,

Thank you for your reply.

I tried to add this code and I get this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ”__x__ ) ); ‘ (T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE) in /home/forexc9/public_html/sinestezic.com/wp-content/themes/x-child/functions.php on line 259

[Christopher]

Hi there,

Please update your code to :

add_filter('the_excerpt', 'manual_excerpt_read_more', 9999);

function manual_excerpt_read_more ( $excerpt ) {

global $post;

return empty( $post->post_excerpt ) ? $excerpt : sprintf( '<a class="read-more" href="%1$s">%2$s</a>', get_permalink( get_the_ID() ), __( 'Read More', '__x__') );

}

Hope it helps.

[Andrei]

Hi Christopher,

Now I can’t see the excerpt.

[Paul R]

Hi,

Please change the code to this.

add_filter('the_excerpt', 'manual_excerpt_read_more', 9999);

function manual_excerpt_read_more ( $excerpt ) {
    global $post;
    if( empty( $post->post_excerpt )) {    
        echo $excerpt;  
    } else {             
        echo sprintf( '<p>%1$s</p><a class="read-more" href="%2$s">%3$s</a>', $post->post_excerpt,get_permalink( get_the_ID() ), __( 'Read More', '__x__') );
    }
}

Thanks

[Author]

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