“read more” link not working

Hi @jm17072011
Please try below code in your functions.php file

function new_excerpt_more($more) {
       global $post;
      return '<br><a class="moretag" href="'. get_permalink( $post->ID ) . '">' . __('Continue', 'your-text-domain') . '</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

Hope this is useful for u ??

Hi,
Thank you for your answer! I try it but it’s not working ??

Hi @jm17072011

You are getting the post by loop through. right ? so u can write the_excerpt() for getting excerpt of the posts and u can add <a></a> tag after the_excerpt().
Add this code in the file where u write the loop for getting posts data.

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<br>
<a class="moretag" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">Continue</a>

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by Kajal Gohel.

I’m not sure to understand ! This is my theme that displays the link automatically when I create a block with multiple posts. It worked before. I didn’t touch the file and it stopped working all of a sudden. Instead of having the link I have this which is displayed on all my pages:
<a class="moretag" href="https://parrainagedequalite.com/en/referral-blissim/"><br>Continue</a>

(The link changes for each article but the rest is unchanged)

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by jm17072011.

I found this on my post-template.php file :

function get_the_content( $more_link_text = null, $strip_teaser = false, $post = null ) {
	global $page, $more, $preview, $pages, $multipage;

	$_post = get_post( $post );

	if ( ! ( $_post instanceof WP_Post ) ) {
		return '';
	}

	// Use the globals if the $post parameter was not specified,
	// but only after they have been set up in setup_postdata().
	if ( null === $post && did_action( 'the_post' ) ) {
		$elements = compact( 'page', 'more', 'preview', 'pages', 'multipage' );
	} else {
		$elements = generate_postdata( $_post );
	}

	if ( null === $more_link_text ) {
		$more_link_text = sprintf(
			'<span aria-label="%1$s">%2$s</span>',
			sprintf(
				/* translators: %s: Post title. */
				__( 'Continue reading %s' ),
				the_title_attribute(
					array(
						'echo' => false,
						'post' => $_post,
					)
				)
			),
			__( '(more&hellip;)' )
		);
	}

	$output     = '';
	$has_teaser = false;

	// If post password required and it doesn't match the cookie.
	if ( post_password_required( $_post ) ) {
		return get_the_password_form( $_post );
	}

	// If the requested page doesn't exist.
	if ( $elements['page'] > count( $elements['pages'] ) ) {
		// Give them the highest numbered page that DOES exist.
		$elements['page'] = count( $elements['pages'] );
	}

	$page_no = $elements['page'];
	$content = $elements['pages'][ $page_no - 1 ];
	if ( preg_match( '/<!--more(.*?)?-->/', $content, $matches ) ) {
		if ( has_block( 'more', $content ) ) {
			// Remove the core/more block delimiters. They will be left over after $content is split up.
			$content = preg_replace( '/<!-- \/?wp:more(.*?) -->/', '', $content );
		}

		$content = explode( $matches[0], $content, 2 );

		if ( ! empty( $matches[1] ) && ! empty( $more_link_text ) ) {
			$more_link_text = strip_tags( wp_kses_no_null( trim( $matches[1] ) ) );
		}

		$has_teaser = true;
	} else {
		$content = array( $content );
	}

	if ( false !== strpos( $_post->post_content, '<!--noteaser-->' ) && ( ! $elements['multipage'] || 1 == $elements['page'] ) ) {
		$strip_teaser = true;
	}

	$teaser = $content[0];

	if ( $elements['more'] && $strip_teaser && $has_teaser ) {
		$teaser = '';
	}

	$output .= $teaser;

	if ( count( $content ) > 1 ) {
		if ( $elements['more'] ) {
			$output .= '<span id="more-' . $_post->ID . '"></span>' . $content[1];
		} else {
			if ( ! empty( $more_link_text ) ) {

				/**
				 * Filters the Read More link text.
				 *
				 * @since 2.8.0
				 *
				 * @param string $more_link_element Read More link element.
				 * @param string $more_link_text    Read More text.
				 */
				$output .= apply_filters( 'the_content_more_link', ' <a href="' . get_permalink( $_post ) . "#more-{$_post->ID}\" class=\"more-link\">$more_link_text</a>", $more_link_text );
			}
			$output = force_balance_tags( $output );
		}
	}

	return $output;
}

/**
 * Display the post excerpt.
 *
 * @since 0.71
 */
function the_excerpt() {

	/**
	 * Filters the displayed post excerpt.
	 *
	 * @since 0.71
	 *
	 * @see get_the_excerpt()
	 *
	 * @param string $post_excerpt The post excerpt.
	 */
	echo apply_filters( 'the_excerpt', get_the_excerpt() );
}

/**
 * Retrieves the post excerpt.
 *
 * @since 0.71
 * @since 4.5.0 Introduced the <code>$post</code> parameter.
 *
 * @param int|WP_Post $post Optional. Post ID or WP_Post object. Default is global $post.
 * @return string Post excerpt.
 */
function get_the_excerpt( $post = null ) {
	if ( is_bool( $post ) ) {
		_deprecated_argument( __FUNCTION__, '2.3.0' );
	}

	$post = get_post( $post );
	if ( empty( $post ) ) {
		return '';
	}

	if ( post_password_required( $post ) ) {
		return __( 'There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.' );
	}

	/**
	 * Filters the retrieved post excerpt.
	 *
	 * @since 1.2.0
	 * @since 4.5.0 Introduced the <code>$post</code> parameter.
	 *
	 * @param string  $post_excerpt The post excerpt.
	 * @param WP_Post $post         Post object.
	 */
	return apply_filters( 'get_the_excerpt', $post->post_excerpt, $post );
}

I resolve this issue ! I don’t know why but this is the Gutenberg extension which is the problem ! I deactivated it and it works

• This reply was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by jm17072011.