Sixteen Nine excerpt question

[Sjoerd Smeets]

Hello, i'm trying something with the Sixteen Nine Pro template but it isn't working yet. Maybe someone could point me in the right direction..

On the homepage i'm displaying 5 recent post excerpts. When the post has less then 50 words it doesn't display [...], if more than is does.

What i want is displaying in both cases a permalink to the post with a custom [continue reading] instead of [...]

It should be possible (i guess) but using the code snippets about post excerpts (on my studiopress) doesn't seem to be the right thing to do. It doesn't do anything.

[Brad Dalton]

Choose the content limit or modify the read more link http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/post-excerpts/

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[Sjoerd Smeets]

As explained above i already tried that but it isn't working.

In functions.php i added:

//* Modify the WordPress read more link
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'sp_read_more_link' );
function sp_read_more_link() {
	return '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '">[Continue Reading]</a>';
}

but nothing shows up as you can see http://www.sjoerdsmeets.info/

[Brad Dalton]

Nope. Please read the description for each snippet.

1. The code you're using only works when using the more tag.
2. When using the content limit, use the 2nd snippet
3. When using excerpts, use the 3rd.

The the_content_more_link function, has no effect on the content limit or excerpts. It only applies to the more tag

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[Sjoerd Smeets]

Solved it by using the following..

//* Modify the length of post excerpts
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'sp_excerpt_length' );
function sp_excerpt_length( $length ) {
	return 20; // pull first 20 words
}

// Replaces the excerpt "more" text by a link
function new_excerpt_more($more) {
       global $post;
	return '<br /><a class="moretag" href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">Lees verder...</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

Thanks!

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