Genesis Responsive Slider: Read more button & excerpts

[anicca]

Dear all,

Would you please kindly show me how display "read more" link, as a read "more button" instead of text, just below the slider excerpt?

With Genesis Responsive Slider, it seems that when we choose to display Post Exceprts, the read more part will disappear automatically. It looks better in many cases to keep the 'read more' stuff, esp if it can be a button instead of text.

Thank you very much for your great help as always and look forward to your instructions.

[Ben @ Inbound Creative]

If you add this to your functions file at the bottom.

//* Add Read More Link to Excerpts
   add_filter(‘excerpt_more’, ‘get_read_more_link’);
   add_filter( ‘the_content_more_link’, ‘get_read_more_link’ );
   function get_read_more_link() {
      return ‘…&nbsp;<a href="’ . get_permalink() . ‘">Read More…</a>';
}

That will display it as text.

If you want it to be displayed as a button, then paste this at the bottom of your functions file.

// Add Read More Link to Excerpts
   add_filter(‘excerpt_more’, ‘get_read_more_link’);
   add_filter( ‘the_content_more_link’, ‘get_read_more_link’ );
   function get_read_more_link() {
      return ‘…&nbsp;<a class="button" href="’ . get_permalink() . ‘">Read More…</a>';
}

You can also change the text of the button by editing between the > and < on the last line of that code where it currently says Read More...

Let me know if you need any more help.

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[anicca]

Thanks for your suggestions. I also found the code #1 somewhere, similar to the one you posted. However, the website died immediately when I pasted it in the function.php file. I guess there's something wrong with it.

[parentpalace]

Any updates on this? I'm having the same issue; wanting to turn the read more link into a button

[anicca]

Hi,

I finally worked this out:

(1) You should create a CSS button. In my case, I create a CSS class called "btn-cta",
(2) Paste the code of the button in Excerpt section of your Post/page.

For example:
<a href="#">Read More</a>

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