Post excerpt links to containing page, not post

[striata]

Latest version of pro. By using Pro’s feature to take andvantage of site variables (the “barrel” in text fields), I am adding the Excerpt of a post (Specific Post, using the post’s ID) to the “subtitle” field of a headline. The excerpt is pulled correctly from the post, ending with “…” after a couple of words, then there is a link “Read more” - all as expected. However: The link does not link to the post, instead it links to the current page, on which I am inserting the excerpt.
Additional questions:

• can I specify the excerpt text for a post? (maybe a brief summary, rather than the first couple of words of the text)
• can I format the “read more” text?

[friech]

Hi @striata,

Thank you for writing in, I can replicate the issue of “read more” not linking to the actual post, I’ve submitted this to our issue tracker so the developers will be made aware of it.

@striata

can I specify the excerpt text for a post? (maybe a brief summary, rather than the first couple of words of the text)

Yes you can, on the post there is a manual excerpt option

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But this also means that you need to hardcode the “read more” with your manual excerpt

e.g.

<a href="POST URL" class="more-link">Read More</a>

@striata

can I format the “read more” text?

Yes, you can, you can use the class .more-link to styling it.

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Hope it helps,
Cheers!