All posts tagged Excerpt

I was a little annoyed the only way that users could continue reading my posts was to click on the blog title or the post image. I did not feel this was 100% user friendly or intuitive for the reader.

I needed to replace [...] at the end of the blog excerpt, with a link and some text that made more sense such as “Read more” or Continue Reading”.

The problem:

Notice how the excerpt text ended with [...]

The Solution

Notice how the excerpt text now ends with …Continue Reading… which also links to the rest of the post.

The Fix.

I opened my WordPress “functions.php” file and added the follow code