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Resolved djsteve
(@djsteve)

14 years, 3 months ago
Is there any way to change the […] at the end of excerpts to instead be a read more link?

I would love to have something like this:
```
<?php the_content("...continue reading the story
called " . get_the_title('', '', false)); ?>
```
but does that only work with the_content it would be great to replace the […] with the link to the excerpt post with the linked title. I fear many web users may miss the fact that they can click on the larger title at the top – this would be better imo

If this has been asked and answered already I apologize.. I went through 200 posts in the search, and read several times the codex for the excerpt and read more customization – not sure how they mesh – still learning php and wp 🙂

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Michael
(@alchymyth)

14 years, 3 months ago
wordpress+custom+excerpt+with+link

one of the top search results:
http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=269

one of the answers in this article:
add this to functions.php of your theme:
```
//function to replace invalid ellipsis with text linking to the post
function elpie_excerpt($text)
{
   return str_replace('[...]', '<a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . ' [&hellip; Read More]' . '</a>', $text);
}
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'elpie_excerpt');
```
or one of many plugins:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-excerpts/
Thread Starter djsteve
(@djsteve)

14 years, 3 months ago

Thank you for the help!
I had not considered searching for those terms, and had not thought to search with google. I had also not thought about a plugin for this!
I’m trying to sift though code and template tags and sheesh, Ijust hit myself on the head – a plugin.

After looking at the plugin you mentioned above, I clicked on the tag for excerpt to see other plugins that worked with customizing the excerpt. I just tried 6 or 7 different plugins.

The fancy excerpt plugin was the closest to being exactly what I wanted – with a couple of minor flaws in my opinion – but for many people it may do the trick.

I found that the post teaser plugin allowed me to tweak the exact text and format that I need.

thanks for leading me in other directions outside the code box I was stuck in!

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