[Plugin: Advanced Excerpt] Append "Read More" to Custom Excerpt

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I solved my problem by unchecking the Read More button in the Advanced Excerpt panel, and inserting read more links with a custom function. See section headed “How to add a link beneath an excerpt to the full post”. That adds read more links to every time the_excerpt is called.

Hi Photocurio. Thanks so much for that link.

I put that code in, but I don’t link how it puts the “read more” link on a new line underneath the excerpt. I really wanted it to be tagged on the end like the other “read more” tags.

And after much messing around, I’ve finally worked it out. So I’ll post it here in case others want to find the solution too.

In the advanced-excerpt.php file (inside the advanced excerpt plugin folder) find this code:


// Avoid custom excerpts
if (!empty($text) && !$no_custom)
return $text;


and replace it with this:

// Avoid custom excerpts (but still add read more)
if (!empty($text) && !$no_custom)
{ $text = $this->text_add_more($text, $ellipsis, ($add_link) ? $read_more : false);
return $text;}


What this does is tell Advanced Excerpt to still add the same “Read More” tag that you use for all other excerpts, even when a custom excerpt is used.

If there are any updates released for this plugin, you’ll just need to copy this code back in.

Awesome job, howeverI have a 70 word limit on generated excepts and it threw the read more link in after 70 words but left the rest of the custom excerpt. And instead of me counting 70 words every time I put a custom excerpt in is there a way to just append it at the end of the custom version?

@Jodamo, Generally I don’t like to hack up a well written plugin, but this one looks like the developer has stopped work on it. So why not? Be sure to rename the plugin and the folder it’s in, or, if the developer does release an update, it could erase your changes.