Moving Excerpt read_more Link To New Line?

[dave_s]

Been trying to figure this out all morning. I'm either dumb or there's some secret Masonic process to achieving it 🙂

I have posts showing as excerpts (set in Agency theme settings) and I would like to have a Read More link.

Using the code snippet in the resources section I can get the link to show, but it's inline with the excerpt text. What I want is to have it show on a new line.

The same as Sugarrae has on her site

Cheers

Dave

[Brad Dalton]

Have you added the WordPress read more link manually to your posts or are you using the Genesis ? Theme Settings > Content Archives settings? http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/post-excerpts/

Sugar Rae may have added the read more link manually.

If they're excerpts, then this is the code to use which you can also target with CSS.

/** Modify the Genesis content limit read more link */
add_filter( 'get_the_content_more_link', 'custom_read_more_link' );
function custom_read_more_link() {
    return '... <a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '">[Continue Reading]</a>';
}

Add this CSS code to the end of your child themes style.css file. It will display the link on a new line.

a.more-link {
display: block;
margin-top: 1.25em;
width: 30%;
}
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Not sure how she got the arrow because it doesn't paste into a PHP function but i'll find out.

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[Brad Dalton]

a.more-link {
    display: block;
    margin-top: 1.25em;
    width: 30%;
}

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[dave_s]

Thanks Brad, you're a star.

That worked a treat.

Added a bit of bottom padding and increased the width slightly and it now looks the dogs nadges ( not sure if that translates well, but rest assured it's a good thing 🙂 )

As for the arrow, it copied fine into the functions file.

Thanks a lot Brad, appreciate your help.

Dave

[Brad Dalton]

hahaha! Good stuff Dave.

I'm working on writing a post about how to add a nice button to that tag also. Cheers

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