Apr 15 2011

How to Add Read More Link to Excerpts in your Genesis Child Theme

Here's how to add the Read More... link to the Excerpts for your Genesis Child Themes.

[php]// Add Read More Link to Excerpts
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'get_read_more_link');
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'get_read_more_link' );
function get_read_more_link() {
return '... <a href="' . get_permalink() . '">Read More...</a>';
}[/php]

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Comments

Gil Namur says

April 27, 2012 at 11:09 pm

Hey Travis,

Just a quick note to thank you for posting this! Excellent fix!
THANK YOU!
Cheers,
Gil

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Greater Vancouver SEO says

May 16, 2012 at 7:02 pm

Thanks so much for sharing this bit of code for excerpts. I’m surprised that StudioPress hasn’t included this option in the Genesis framework so we don’t have to do it within the functions.

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Rob Cubbon says

June 27, 2012 at 8:31 am

Same as Gil above, Travis, many thanks for putting is here. Saved me a lot of time and it worked a treat! Thanks. 🙂

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Mark Corpuz says

August 23, 2012 at 12:38 pm

Thank you Travis. I also added a “read more” class selector on your code so I can modify how it’s displayed. Then I placed the class selector on the stylesheet and assigned it to display: block plus I text-aligned it to display on the right section. Now my read more link looks like a button.

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kingsley says

February 4, 2013 at 7:07 am

thanks it worked

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Upendra Shrestha says

May 12, 2013 at 7:44 am

Hi,
After adding the Read More… link to the Excerpts, How to float it at the Bottom Right Corner with style.css?
Can you help? I have added the Read More… and its showing up just after the excerpts.

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alisajjad160 says

May 10, 2015 at 5:31 am

How i can customize in CSS this Read More button?

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