How to enable read more by default using jquery

Is your theme Discy? If so, that’s a premium theme from ThemeForest, so you’ve paid for support, available here: https://themeforest.net/item/discy-social-questions-and-answers-wordpress-theme/19281265/support.

From what I can tell, clicking on “Read more” or “Read less” just toggles the display property of p.excerpt-question and div.content-question-jquery.discy_hide, so using CSS or jQuery it should be simple to start with the full question open.

Maybe you should look at wordpress REST API. The purpose of the REST api is to allow interaction between the front and back end of your site. You would also want to create a nonce to prevent cross site scripting.

Hi @crstauf thanks for your time, Yes i am using Discy theme but they dont support any customization and my support has expired. I tried CSS but that doesnt help/work.

I got below update from another forum, but i have never customized jQuery before so dont have any idea where to place this code, which file i have to update.

jQuery(document).ready(function(){
        jQuery(".post-read-more").each(function(){
            jQuery(this).click();
        });
        // And if you want to finally disable this links
        jQuery(".question-read-more").remove();
        jQuery(".question-read-less").remove();
    });

Would highly appreciate further assistance on this.

Thanks

In your theme’s functions.php, or in an mu-plugin, add the following:

wp_add_inline_script( 'jquery-core', 'jQuery( document ).ready( function() { jQuery( '.post-read-more' ).each( function() { jQuery ( this ).click(); } ); } );' );

The above should help you get started.

Hi @crstauf

Thanks for the code. I got below error when copied the code to function

Your PHP code changes were rolled back due to an error on line 190 of file wp-content/themes/discy-child-theme/functions.php. Please fix and try saving again.

syntax error, unexpected ” ).each( function() { jQuery ‘ (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING), expecting ‘)’

Thanks

Oh yeah sorry @amexing: that’s what I get for writing the code plainly.

wp_add_inline_script( 'jquery-core', 'jQuery( document ).ready( function() { jQuery( ".post-read-more" ).each( function() { jQuery ( this ).click(); } ); } );' );

Thanks @crstauf

This worked like a charm!!

Glad to have been of help!