How can I add the "Read More" link to excerpts?

[henridelbosque]

Hello people. I am working with the sample child theme but i have a question. I am using excerpts but i want to add a "read more" link at the end of it. Is there a way to do it?

Here is my sitie: http://www.tuvitalidad.com

[RobG]

Have you try inserting it using your WordPress editor...

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[henridelbosque]

Sorry if I didnt make it clear. What i need is to add a read more link at the end of every excerpt automatically without using the 'more tag' in the posts editor.

[Summer]

There is a tutorial at Studiograsshopper that's come in handy for me when tweaking the excerpt (I prefer to use the manual excerpts, and have on occasion needed to add a "Read More")

http://www.studiograsshopper.ch/code-snippets/customising-the_excerpt/

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[Brad Dalton]

Pretty much exactly the same as what you'll find in the official StudioPress Code Snippets. http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/post-excerpts/

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

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[henridelbosque]

Worked as Summer said. Thank you very much 🙂

[Summer]

Brad, the Studio Press page never included any snippets that worked with manual excerpts, and the tutorial at Studiograsshopper was one of the few resources to highlight the distinction between automatic and manual excerpts early on, and to write snippets that would work for either method.

Plus, there's no confusion about "will that only work with Genesis themes" for newcomers.

I love Studio Press resources as much as anyone else here, but sometimes there's a tunnel vision towards solutions that rivals the old Steve jobs Reality Distortion field 🙂

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[colleengreene]

Thank you, Summer! I've been searching for a solution for hours. The other tutorials all recommend a code block that was not working on the Sample child theme. This worked perfect. And you are correct....the StudioPress code snippets do NOT do the same thing, and do not work for manual excerpts (at least not on the Sample child theme).

[Brad Dalton]

For hand crafted excerpts added manually in the Excerpt meta box, here's another solution

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[handsun]

I added both these snippets to functions.php (Whitespace Pro) but got nothing back, no read more and no 50 words, any ideas?
I also tried this which I found on wordpress.org https://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt

function new_excerpt_more( $more ) {
	return ' <a class="read-more" href="'. get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . '">' . __('Read More', 'your-text-domain') . '</a>';
}

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