This week’s bit is a quick fix.  You’ve probably seen “|Read More|” around my site when you head off to the Paranormal/Shapeshifter or Ridgeville page.  Notice that each book is show with the cover, a teaser and then that lovely “|Read More|”.  Well, WordPress doesn’t come out of the box with the lovely link.  Nope, the stock appearance is “[...]“.  And it doesn’t even link to the post!  What use is that, I ask you?

Harrumph.

So, this week, we’re heading back to one of your theme’s files.  Functions.php to be exact.  So, trot off and find it… Got it?  Now, anywhere AFTER the opening tag, past in the following:

function new_excerpt_more($more) {

global $post;

return ‘ ID) . ‘”>|Read More|’;

}

See that bit that’s highlighted?  That’s what the link will show.  So, if you want it to read “Read More Awesome” then that’s what you’d put there and voila!  Awesome!

It’s a quick, simple and easy way to customize wordpress’ read more link for your posts.

Have a mwah! day!

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