Customize "Continue Reading →" ??

Hi Brendan,
You are editing CHILD theme, which is a good habit instead of editing parent themes.

Yea, here is a way to customize Continue Reading → for FASHIONISTAS theme.

1- Goto your theme directory (FASHIONISTAS).
2- Find & open (inc) folder.
3- open extras.php.
4- find the following function and replace the Continue Reading → with any TEXT you want.
function athemes_continue_reading_link() {
return ‘ ‘ . __( ‘Continue Reading <span class=”meta-nav”>→</span>’, ‘athemes’ ) . ‘‘;
}

This will solve the issue…

Thanks.

Right you are. I was editing extras.php in my child theme. I now see that that does not work.

If that file will not be read in the child theme, is there a way to preserve my function in the functions.php of my child theme?

This does not work, but perhaps provides an idea:

function tii_continue_reading_link() {
	return ' ' . __( '', 'athemes' ) . '';
}

function child_theme_setup() {
	// override parent theme's 'more' text for excerpts
	remove_filter( 'continue_reading_link', 'athemes_continue_reading_link' );
	add_filter( 'continue_reading_link', 'tii_continue_reading_link' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'child_theme_setup' );

Thanks!

Hi,
Here is the working code.If you don’t want to change the theme functions.You can use WP remove_filter feature like this:

function child_theme_setup()
{
remove_filter('excerpt_more', 'athemes_custom_excerpt_more');
}
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'child_theme_setup');

function custom_excerpt_more($more)
{
return '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '">Your Read More Link Text</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'custom_excerpt_more');

This way you will get the CUSTOM Continue Reading text without changing theme functions.

Thanks…

Thank you for the effort. I’m afraid that wasn’t it.

I’m talking about the “athemes_continue_reading_link,” not the “athemes_custom_excerpt_more”.

I tried to adapt what you’ve provided to my case, but without success.

For example, I tried:

function child_theme_setup()
{
remove_filter('continue_reading_link', 'athemes_continue_reading_link');
}
add_action('after_setup_theme', 'child_theme_setup');

function custom_excerpt_more($more)
{
return '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '">Your Read More Link Text</a>';
}
add_filter('continue_reading_link', 'custom_excerpt_more');

That didn’t do it.

If you don’t want to use the athemes_continue_reading_link, then you can remove functions attached with this hook and can write your own function in the child theme as well to ADD it after removing athemes_continue_reading_link.
This function will create CUSTOM CONTINUE READING with custom function:

function custom_excerpt_more() {
    return '…<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '">CUSTOM READ MORE?</a>';
}

function my_child_theme_setup() {
    remove_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'athemes_continue_reading_link' );
    add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'custom_excerpt_more' );
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'my_child_theme_setup' );

I hope this clears stuff in your mind.Thanks