The reason the “more” quicktag doesn’t work is because auto-generated excerpts have all shortcodes and tags removed. The easiest way to get around this is to create a manual excerpt and then apply the “more” link using a custom function. You should be using a child theme that has a functions.php file. You can easily create a child theme from within the theme (let me know if you need any info on that).
1. In the post editor make sure Screen Options > Excerpt is enabled.
2. Copy the post text that you want to show in the post summary to the Excerpt option field.
3. Add this to the end of your child theme functions.php file:
//display read more link when there is a manually entered exceprt
function excerpt_read_more($excerpt) {
if (has_excerpt() && !is_attachment()) {
$excerpt .= '… <a href="' . get_permalink() . '">Programme here</a>';
}
return $excerpt;
}
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'excerpt_read_more');
Your post summary should then look like this with a link to the full post:
Music for a While
“Music for a while” – a taste of Early English Music by Dowland, Purcell and Handel.… Programme here
