Customize "continue reading" link on specific pages

[bionary]

Hello,

I know you can change the "continue reading" button globally. I am, however looking to do it only on a specific category page. For instance when a user goes to: http://mysite.com/category/videos/ I would like the buttons to say "watch video". Can this be done and hopefully without a plugin?

Thanks!

[Genesis Developer]

Try this code once. You will add it in your functions.php file

add_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'gd_customize_more_link_text' );
add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'gd_customize_more_link_text' );
function gd_customize_more_link_text( $more_link ) {
  if( ! is_category( 'videos' ) )
    return $more_link;
    
  $new_more_link = sprintf( '… <a href="%s" class="more-link">%s</a>', get_permalink(), genesis_a11y_more_link( __( 'watch video', 'themeprefix' ) ) );
  return $new_more_link;
  
}

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[bionary]

Thank you for your efforts but it did not work.
I tried both:
if( ! is_category( 'Videos' ) )
and
if( ! is_category( 'videos' ) )

thinking maybe there could be a difference as one is the category title and the other is the slug...but neither one worked I'm afraid.

[Genesis Developer]

Then use the category ID. Assuming your category ID is 20 then you will use

! is_category( 20 )

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[bionary]

nope, actually digging into the function.php file I see I already have:
//* Modify the WordPress read more link
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'beautiful_read_more' );
function beautiful_read_more() {
return '' . __( 'Continue Reading', 'beautiful' ) . '';
}

//* Modify the content limit read more link
add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'beautiful_more' );
function beautiful_more() {

	add_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'beautiful_read_more' );

}

add_action( 'genesis_after_loop', 'beautiful_remove_more' );
function beautiful_remove_more() {

	remove_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'beautiful_read_more' );

}

so i think there's a conflict occurring

[Genesis Developer]

Ahhh... do not use my code

Try this

add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'beautiful_read_more' );
function beautiful_read_more() {
  if( ! is_category( 'videos' ) )
    return __( 'Continue Reading', 'beautiful' );
    
  return __( 'watch video', 'beautiful' );
}

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[bionary]

did so, with three variants: "videos" "Videos", 18 ... video page comes back with no links

[bionary]

no, I'm a bozo. your code was working....I just didn't see the 'watch video' only because it wasn't a link...it was simply appended to the end of the text. Here's my final working code:

add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'beautiful_read_more' );
function beautiful_read_more() {
	if(is_category('videos')){
		return '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . __( 'Watch Video', 'beautiful' ) . '</a>'; 
	}else{
		return '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '">' . __( 'Continue Reading', 'beautiful' ) . '</a>'; 
	}
}

Thanks, as i couldn't have done this without your speed help!

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