Discussion on question by Trufa: The excerpt doesn't add Read more

7:46 PM

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I am confused about the behaviour of the_excerpt() and get_the_excerpt(). My objective is to have a manual excerpt and display a continue reading. I went through this article, and apparently the_excerpt() is not meant for that. So I'm trying get_the_excerpt() instead, and I still don't get th...

Trufa

@sakibmoon I am modifying directly the code of the theme. I don't think it's the child of any other theme.

sakibmoon

Add low priority to excerpt_more filter as I mentioned in my previous post. Then it will override your themes default one and give the result that you want.

@PieterGoosen You got me worrying there for a minute. Make sense now. But I will advise against using $post->$post_excerpt directly. It's kinda stiff in my opinion.

Trufa

@sakibmoon is low priority a high number? Of which function do you mean? Right now I have this and in my contents.php I have the_excerpt(), I have tried most combinations and nothing seems to work, what should it look like?

Pieter Goosen

I'm off to bed now, the excerpt_more link does not work on manual excerpts. Not when using $post->post_excerpt,, the_excerpt() or get_the_excerpt(). You'll have to manually add the read more text where you need it

Trufa

@PieterGoosen ok, thanks, but is there another function I could use? I'm not hellbent on this function, or my only option is to add it manually?

sakibmoon

8:07 PM

@Trufa I believe @PieterGoosen is right about excerpt_more filter. Change that to get_the_excerpt and return after concatenating with $more.

Pat J

I wonder if it's related to the fact that your excerpt_length filter returns 1, ie, one word. If you crank that up to, say, 20 or so, does it start to work?

Trufa

@PatJ I just put it to 1 because it was not working with 55, tried several number, all things remaining equal, it doesn't make it appear.

sakibmoon

// Add more-link text to excerpt
function new_excerpt_more( $more ) {
return $more. '... <a class="more-link" href="'. get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . '">' . __('Continue Reading', 'baskerville') . ' →</a>';
}
add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'new_excerpt_more' );

Try this code. It changes the excerpt. Should work.

Trufa

@sakibmoon I don't get exactly what you mean, I'm not doing echo get_the_excerpt() and I see the excerpt. I don't get what you mean by: Change that to get_the_excerpt and return after concatenating with $more.

something like this? return $more . '... <a class="more-link" href="'. get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . '">' . __('Continue Reading', 'baskerville') . ' →</a>';

Or did I misunderstood you?

sakibmoon

Yes. Like that.

I have posted the code just before this.

Trufa

8:21 PM

@sakibmoon wow! Awesome man!

Thanks a lot!

Please post it as an answer!

I am truly dissapointed in WP though.

It's pretty amazing the amount of effort this took.

given the ease of the task at hand.

sakibmoon

@Trufa Glad I could help. I will add it as an answer soon.

It's not the fault of WP though.

Once you have worked a little more with WP, it will come easy.

Try to read the codex, it explains lots of stuff and what you should do.

@Trufa I added the answer.

I suggest you to read the answer and this article rarst.net/wordpress/wordpress-excerpt-teaser again for better understanding the whole situation.

Trufa

@sakibmoon I have worked with wordpress and I can do most stuff without getting stuck but there's always something every now and then that get's in my way in a ridiculously annoying way :)

Also I read the article, but couldn't figure out where the the answer to my particular problem lies.

The article also seems to show to me that that is NOT a clearly defined function with an predictable behaviour

the in codex are incredibly confusing

I don't want to sound like I hate wordpress or anything

I know there's a lot of unnecessary bashing

and some familiarity goes a long way, but still, some parts seem to be just way too complex.

sakibmoon

8:40 PM

@Trufa There are lots of filters to get confused. I give you that

One rule of thumb that you can follow is to follow all the filter/action references in the codex and search with the thing that you are looking for.

In your case in was excerpt.

So open Filter reference page