Custom excerpt length

[studionoobly]

How can I set up an excerpt on posts that has a limit of say 35 words/228 characters and then shows a customised 'Read More' link at the end?

I have tried the following:

add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'change_excerpt_length' );
function change_excerpt_length($length) {
		return 35;
}

But if there are less than 35 words lets say four words then no button shows up?

I have also tried this:

add_filter('excerpt_more', 'get_read_more_link');
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'get_read_more_link' );
function get_read_more_link() {
	 return '<a class="button archive-button" href="' . get_permalink($post->ID) . '">Continue&nbsp;Reading&nbsp;<i class="fa fa-angle-right" aria-hidden="true"></i></span></a>';
}

But again if there's less than four or five words no button shows up? I have checked Genesis theme settings there is a show excerpt option but no option to control the amount of words or characters.

Lastly I also tried this:

function wpm_manual_excerpt_read_more_link($excerpt) {
    $excerpt_more = '';
    if (has_excerpt() && ! is_attachment() && get_post_type() == 'post') {
        $excerpt_more = '&nbsp;<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">[Continue&nbsp;reading] <span class="screen-reader-text">' . get_the_title() . '</span></a>';
    }
    return $excerpt . $excerpt_more;
}

But no button...

Thanks

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[Jess]

This is what I add to my functions.php file to add 'Read More' text to the ends of post excerpts (change the bold text to whatever you'd like):

// Modify The Read More Link Text
function new_excerpt_more($more) {
return ' ... [Read More]';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

And this is what I add to limit the length of those excerpts (change the bolded number to the number of characters you'd like):
// Change length of post excerpt
function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
return 30;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

---

Jess

[Jess]

Ah -- sorry! I forgot to wrap that first chunk of code it the right tags so this site killed some of it. Here's what it should have said:

// Modify The Read More Link Text
function new_excerpt_more($more) {
  return ' <a class="read-more" href="' . get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . '">... [Read More]</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

---

Jess

[studionoobly]

Thanks Jess,

I've tried that you can see it in the second snippet of code in my question.

Fortunately and after much searching I found that this works when I put it into the category templates.

 echo substr(get_the_excerpt(), 0,350).' [...]';
 echo '<a class="button archive-button" href="'. get_permalink( get_the_ID() ).'">Continue&nbsp;Reading&nbsp;</a>';

you can view the full code here at stackoverflow

[tanyaslogos]

Thank you Jess!!!! I kept trying the code listed here http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/post-excerpts/#content-more-link and it wouldn't work but your code did the job!

Thank you so very much! You are the BEST!

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