I've been looking at customising the 'continue reading' link in a Twentyten child theme - I managed to change the 'read more' link in an earlier theme, but it looks far more complex in Twentyten. Has anyone found out how to do this?
[resolved] Custom "continue reading" in Twentyten (26 posts)
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billbennett
Posted 1 year ago # -
Look at the function.php file, line 241. The wording can be changed there.
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Root
Posted 1 year ago #Far better to put the new function when u find it in functions.php in yr Child Theme IMHO. Never hack core files.
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Posted 1 year ago #Here u go
// no more jumping for read more link function no_more_jumping($post) { return '<a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'" class="read-more">'.'Continue Reading'.'</a>'; } add_filter('excerpt_more', 'no_more_jumping'); -
Posted 1 year ago #Thanks. I should have been clearer. In my old theme I used custom fields to give each post a different 'read more'.
This looks so much harder in Twentyten.
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The Twenty ten theme is far more complex, but making child themes is much easier. As pointed out by Root, you could make a child theme with the new function, but I have no idea how to modify the function to read something different for each post.... sorry.
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Posted 1 year ago #Well there must be a function to do that somewhere......Looking at the function I posted you just need to add an array and rotate thru it ;)
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/* Twenty Ten custom 'continue reading' / / custom field ($key = 'cont_read' ) dependant 'continue reading' text / alchymyth 2010 */ class Transformation_Text_Wrangler { function reading_more($translation, $text, $domain) { global $post; $cont_read = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'cont_read', true ); if( $cont_read ) : $cont_read = htmlentities($cont_read, ENT_QUOTES); $translations = &get_translations_for_domain( $domain ); if ( $text == 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>' ) { return $translations->translate( $cont_read . ' <span class="meta-nav">»</span>' ); } return $translation; // custom field value else : return $translation; // standard text endif; } } add_filter('gettext', array('Transformation_Text_Wrangler', 'reading_more'), 10, 4);extended, from:
http://www.transformationpowertools.com/wordpress/read-more-in-twenty-ten-child-theme -
Posted 1 year ago #Very cool. Thanks ;)
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Posted 1 year ago #Would it be possible to pull the text for alternatives to "Continue reading" from a custom field?
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that is exactly what the snippet posted earlier does:
here is the line referring to the custom field:
$cont_read = get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'cont_read', true ); -
Posted 1 year ago #I'm sorry - I tried reading the code, but couldn't figure it out. (I'm not really a programmer at all).
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no problem -
it should work if you make a custom field with the key 'cont_read' and then enter your chosen text, what you would like to see instead of the 'continue reading'.the code also changes the arrow →
→into »
»did you get it to work?
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Posted 1 year ago #I've loaded the function into my child theme without a problem, but don't have it working properly yet. Will spend the later part of today trying to figure out why :-)
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Posted 1 year ago #It's hard to see why this isn't working.
I've added the code to functions.php which is in the child theme directory.
If I add a custom field entry it flashes yellow - which is a good sign.
But continue reading doesn't change on the home page or on the archive pages.
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do you save/update the custom field?
do you update/save the post?is the custom field content still there if you go back and edit the post?
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Posted 1 year ago #Yes to all three.
I tried searching for the content in the SQL database - and searching for the field name - I can't find either, but they MUST be there somewhere.
Could there be a problem with the way the loop calls the function?:
<div class="entry-content"> <?php the_excerpt( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'twentyten' ) ); ?> <?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyten' ), 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?> </div><!-- .entry-content --> -
the_excerpt()has no parameter - the above code is and was always unexplained to me.the 'read-more' text for the excerpt comes from a function in functions.php of the twenty ten theme:
/** * Adds a pretty "Continue Reading" link to custom post excerpts. * * To override this link in a child theme, remove the filter and add your own * function tied to the get_the_excerpt filter hook. * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 * @return string Excerpt with a pretty "Continue Reading" link */ function twentyten_custom_excerpt_more( $output ) { if ( has_excerpt() && ! is_attachment() ) { $output .= twentyten_continue_reading_link(); } return $output; } add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'twentyten_custom_excerpt_more' );and this:
/** * Returns a "Continue Reading" link for excerpts * * @since Twenty Ten 1.0 * @return string "Continue Reading" link */ function twentyten_continue_reading_link() { return ' <a href="'. get_permalink() . '">' . __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'twentyten' ) . '</a>'; }if you haven't changed anything there, my suggested code should work (i would hope - tested in a child theme)
you could paste the code of your functions.php into a http://wordpress.pastebin.com/ and post the link here for someone to check.
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Posted 1 year ago #Thanks
I appreciate this, I also hope it will help others.
Functions.php is saved at: http://wordpress.pastebin.com/wPVm5Q9M
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this is the full functions.php of your child theme?
have you changed anything in the functions.php of your parent theme, the Twenty Ten?
you can also try:
-change to the Twenty Ten theme and add the code directly into the functions.php of that theme;
-deactivate all plugins, and when that solves the problem, re-activate one plugin after the other to see which triggers the problem.
a link to your site might help to investigate this problem.
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Posted 1 year ago #Yes, that's it for functions.php - I had others previously, but have since stripped it back to nothing.
I'm sure nothing is changed in the parent Twenty Ten functions, but to make certain, I'll reload a fresh file.
I'll try making the change to the parent function.php file later - maybe later today.
First I'm going to deactivate plug-ins and investigate this as a potential problem.
My site is http://billbennett.co.nz
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Posted 1 year ago #Definitely not a plug in problem...just deactivated and nothing changed
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Posted 1 year ago #Moving the code to the parent functions.php didn't seem to make any difference.
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i am at my limits, to what to suggest.
i tried my suggested code locally in the twenty ten theme, and in a child theme; as well online in my twenty ten child theme based blog.
no problems.
however, each installation is unique, and the non-working might be caused by something that seems totally unrelated.----
an alternative way is to edit all occurrances of
<?php the_content( __( 'Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'twentyten' ) ); ?>
in loop.php (copied into the child theme; occurs twice - lines 110 and 138) to include the custom field text; for instance so:
<?php $read_more = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'cont_read', true); $read_more = $read_more ? $read_more : 'Continue reading'; the_content( __( $read_more . ' <span class="meta-nav">→</span>', 'twentyten' ) ); ?>and add a section in functions.php of the child theme:
for instance: http://wordpress.pastebin.com/8EuqBfbH -
Posted 1 year ago #Thanks Alchymyth. I think you've already gone well beyond the call of duty.
I'll give this other suggestion a try later.
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Posted 1 year ago #This is now working, along the way I had to swap out the references to
<?php the_content
to
<?php the-excerpt
but that fixed it. Maybe this was the problem in the first place?
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