Title: Customize the Read More
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Customize the Read More

 *  [kumrae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kumrae/)
 * (@kumrae)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-the-read-more/)
 * Is it possible to customize the Read More after the post excerpt on the home 
   page? I am new to WordPress and tried to edit <?php the_content() to include 
   the text ‘Continue reading’ in both the content-page.php and content-single.php
   and did not work. Also, I want to change the text color when you hover over Read
   More. Maybe I am looking in the wrong place?

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 *  [kaniamea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaniamea/)
 * (@kaniamea)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-the-read-more/#post-4710196)
 * Hello,
    you can change that in the functions.php file. First create a child theme
   of Alkane and then create a functions.php file with the following:
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'alkane_content_more_link', 10, 2 );
       function alkane_content_more_link( $more_link, $more_link_text ) {
       	return str_replace( $more_link_text, '<span>'. __( 'Continue reading &rarr;', 'alkane' ) .'</span>', $more_link );
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [kumrae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kumrae/)
 * (@kumrae)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-the-read-more/#post-4710287)
 * Hi there,
 * Thanks for the help but unfortunately didn’t work. I did create a child theme
   and activated it – everything looked normal.
 * Then I created a functions.php file with the code you provided above, but when
   I loaded it into the child folder in FTP (same path as the original functions.
   php for the parent folder) it caused everything to be blank page including my
   wordpress account.
 * For reference, this is what is in the original alkane functions.php file:
 * <?php
 * /** Load the Core Files */
    require_once( trailingslashit( get_template_directory()).‘
   lib/init.php’ ); new Alkane();
 * /** Do theme setup on the ‘after_setup_theme’ hook. */
    add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’,‘
   alkane_theme_setup’ );
 * /** Theme setup function. */
    function alkane_theme_setup() {
 *  /** Add theme support for Feed Links. */
    add_theme_support( ‘automatic-feed-
   links’ );
 *  /** Add theme support for Custom Background. */
    add_theme_support( ‘custom-
   background’, array( ‘default-color’ => ‘fff’ ) );
 *  /** Set content width. */
    alkane_set_content_width( 640 );
 *  /** Add custom image sizes. */
    add_action( ‘init’, ‘alkane_add_image_sizes’);
 * }
 * /** Adds custom image sizes */
    function alkane_add_image_sizes() { add_image_size(‘
   featured’, 200, 200, true ); }

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 * Last reply from: [kumrae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kumrae/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-the-read-more/#post-4710287)
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