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Community Forums › Forums › Archived Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › Help: How to change the "read more" text at my blog

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Tagged: blog, Excerpt, minimun, post, read more, theme

  • This topic has 9 replies, 3 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 9 months ago by Brad Dalton.
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  • August 1, 2013 at 9:31 am #53556
    josbarrios
    Member

    Hi everybody. I need help with this: How can I change the "read more" text at my blog? (at the content excerpt)

    http://www.josuebarrios.com/blog

    I'll apreciatte your help.

    (Am from Venezuela, so my english is bad. Sorry for my grammar mistakes)

    http://www.josuebarrios.com/
    August 1, 2013 at 10:05 am #53564
    Robin
    Member

    Hi Josue,

    You can change that in your home.php at the very bottom.

    HTH


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    August 1, 2013 at 10:05 am #53565
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    Try one of these snippets http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/post-excerpts/


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    August 3, 2013 at 7:54 pm #54015
    josbarrios
    Member

    Hi Brad. I have tried to add these snippets, but then says error. 🙁

    August 3, 2013 at 9:05 pm #54023
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    All the code StudioPress provides works perfectly as it has been tested and used thousands of times.

    What can happen sometimes is the apostrohes can turn around if you don't copy it from the view raw link and you paste it into your theme editor.

    Its best to paste it at the end of your child themes functions.php file using a code editor like Notepad++

    Which snippet did you use?


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    August 4, 2013 at 11:20 am #54134
    josbarrios
    Member

    I want to use the 2nd snippet here.

    Post Excerpts

    I will try to do that using a code editor like Notepad++

    Thanks!

    August 4, 2013 at 11:37 am #54137
    josbarrios
    Member

    Hi Brad. I used Notepad++ to add the snippet at the end in the functions.php but it didn't worked, so I had to reupload the functions.php unedited. :/

    August 4, 2013 at 10:52 pm #54190
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    Below is the code to modify the read more link when using the Content Limit on the Content Archives section on the Genesis Settings page:

    Make sure you have the above settings and you will also need to change the text in the code for the [Continue Reading]

    https://gist.github.com/studiopress/5700336


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    August 5, 2013 at 8:37 am #54225
    josbarrios
    Member

    Hi Brad. I have tried to paste the snippets at the end of the functions.php file, but it didn't worked (and I have tryed a lot!). My website crash and I have to reupload unedited the functions.php file. I guess am doing it wrong. :/

    August 5, 2013 at 10:40 am #54250
    Brad Dalton
    Participant

    Can you please send me the functions file [email protected]


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