Customize the_excerpt link

  • Hi,

    I’m trying to add manually my latest posts on my homepage and customize their excerpt link (“continue reading”)

    I did it using :

    <?php
 $postslist = get_posts('numberposts=2&order=DESC&orderby=date');
 foreach ($postslist as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
 ?>

    adding thumbnails and metas and, finally, using <?php the_excerpt(); ?>.

    Ideally, I’d like the last link to be customized exactly as it is in my category page, not made by me, (basically a block text with a border), so I had a look at it to see what happens there and I found a couple of things:

    1) My category template uses <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> which is normal, I think, and

    2) A function was added to functions.php: 

    add_filter('excerpt_more', 'custom_excerpt_more');
	// no more jumping for read more link
	function no_more_jumping($post) {
		return '...<a href="'.get_permalink($post->ID).'" class="read-more">'.'Continue Reading'.'</a>';
	}

    which adds to it the “read-more” class which customizes it.

    How can I apply this category also to my homepage excerpt?

    Thank you!

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  • Thread Starter Dancar11

    (@dancar11)

    I mean “apply this class”, not “this category” of course.

    Hi Dancar11,

    there seems to be some problem in your code, function name should be ‘custom_excerpt_more’ and not ‘no_more_jumping’ as per add_filter call.
    Also, i have tried get_posts with the_excerpt in test template (using 2012 theme), its working fine with this code below

    functions.php

    function new_excerpt_more( $more ) {
	return ' <a class="read-more" href="' . get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . '">' . __( 'Read More', 'your-text-domain' ) . '</a>';
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more' );

    Test template code

    <?php
/*
* Template Name: Test Template
*/

get_header();

$postslist = get_posts('numberposts=2&order=DESC&orderby=date');
 foreach ($postslist as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);

echo '<div>';
echo '<h2>'.get_the_title().'</h2>';
the_excerpt();
echo '</div>';

endforeach;

get_footer();

?>

    Let me know if it helps !

    Thread Starter Dancar11

    (@dancar11)

    That easily worked!

    Thank you very much ??

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