Title: Change "Continue Reading"
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Change "Continue Reading"

 *  Resolved [curiouslt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curiouslt/)
 * (@curiouslt)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-continue-reading-3/)
 * I want to change the ‘Continue Reading ->’ that appears with the except to ‘read
   more..’, but I ‘m having a bit of trouble figuring it out. I found the function,
   but I can’t get it to change in my child theme.

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 *  Theme Author [Anthony Hortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahortin/)
 * (@ahortin)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-continue-reading-3/#post-4645115)
 * Hi Nadine,
 * If you want to change the “Continue reading” link that is shown when you add 
   a “read more” tag within your content, then you can change this within the content.
   php template. The `the_content()` function has a parameter that you pass with
   the text that you want displayed.
 * If you want to change the text for the automatic excerpts that are generated,
   such as on the search results page. Then add the following functions to your 
   child theme functions.php file.
 *     ```
       function quarkchild_continue_reading_link() {
       	return '&hellip;<p><a class="more-link" href="'. esc_url( get_permalink() ) . '" title="' . esc_html__( 'Continue reading', 'quark' ) . ' &lsquo;' . get_the_title() . '&rsquo;">' . wp_kses( __( 'Read more <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'quark' ), array( 'span' => array(
       			'class' => array() ) ) ) . '</a></p>';
       }
   
       function quarkchild_auto_excerpt_more( $more ) {
       	return quarkchild_continue_reading_link();
       }
       add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'quarkchild_auto_excerpt_more', 11 );
       ```
   
 * What I’ve done here is duplicated the functions that were in the quark theme 
   that create the “read more” link. I’ve then simply renamed them (so you don’t
   get any php errors by having duplicate function names) and then used these on
   the “excerpt_more” filter. I’ve also specified the priority as 11 so that it 
   gets called after the filter in the parent Quark theme (and thereby overriding
   it).
 * Hope this helps 🙂
 *  Theme Author [Anthony Hortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahortin/)
 * (@ahortin)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-continue-reading-3/#post-4645116)
 * Hi Nadine,
 * If you want to change the “Continue reading” link that is shown when you add 
   a “read more” tag within your content, then you can change this within the content.
   php template. The `the_content()` function has a parameter that you pass with
   the text that you want displayed.
 * If you want to change the text for the automatic excerpts that are generated,
   such as on the search results page. Then add the following functions to your 
   child theme functions.php file.
 *     ```
       function quarkchild_continue_reading_link() {
       	return '&hellip;<p><a class="more-link" href="'. esc_url( get_permalink() ) . '" title="' . esc_html__( 'Continue reading', 'quark' ) . ' &lsquo;' . get_the_title() . '&rsquo;">' . wp_kses( __( 'Read more <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'quark' ), array( 'span' => array(
       			'class' => array() ) ) ) . '</a></p>';
       }
   
       function quarkchild_auto_excerpt_more( $more ) {
       	return quarkchild_continue_reading_link();
       }
       add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'quarkchild_auto_excerpt_more', 11 );
       ```
   
 * What I’ve done here is duplicated the functions that were in the quark theme 
   that create the “read more” link. I’ve then simply renamed them (so you don’t
   get any php errors by having duplicate function names) and then used these on
   the “excerpt_more” filter. I’ve also specified the priority as 11 so that it 
   gets called after the filter in the parent Quark theme (and thereby overriding
   it).
 * Hope this helps 🙂
 *  Theme Author [Anthony Hortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahortin/)
 * (@ahortin)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-continue-reading-3/#post-4645117)
 * Excuse the duplicate posts. Not sure what happened there.
 *  Thread Starter [curiouslt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/curiouslt/)
 * (@curiouslt)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-continue-reading-3/#post-4645119)
 * thanks so much, the function did the trick!
 *  Theme Author [Anthony Hortin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ahortin/)
 * (@ahortin)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-continue-reading-3/#post-4645126)
 * Glad it helped 🙂

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-continue-reading-3/#post-4645126)
 * Status: resolved