[Resolved] force read more button

[Marco]

Hello
I’m showing my posts in some grid view with a summary and “continue reading…” button – I’ve some post where the summary is actually too short so WP is not showing a read more button – for layout consistency I’d like to have that read more button on ALL posts – how can I force WP to show the button all the time??

[Leo]

Hi there,

Can you try this snippet here and see if it works?
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/activating-read-custom-excerpt/#read-more-button

Let me know 🙂

[Marco]

Thanks Leo – just tried that before you responded – it doesn’t seem to work – has_excerpt() is always false??

[Leo]

Give this a shot:
https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/read-more-in-case-of-no-excerpt/

[Marco]

Thanks again Leo – the following two filter will do the trick as well:

	/* Filter - Remove default 'excerpt more'
	---------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
	function themeprefix_excerpt_more( $more ) {
		return '';
	}
	add_filter('excerpt_more', 'themeprefix_excerpt_more', 21 );

	/* Filter - Add 'read more' to custom excerpt
	---------------------------------------------------------------------------- */
	function themeprefix_get_the_excerpt( $excerpt ) {
		$output = $excerpt;

		$output = sprintf(
			'%1$s <p class="read-more-container"><a class="button read-more" href="%2$s" title="">%3$s</a></p>',
			$excerpt,
			get_permalink(),
			__( 'Continue Reading', 'plugin' )
		);

		return $output;
	}
	add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'themeprefix_get_the_excerpt' );

[Leo]

Awesome.

Thanks for sharing!

[Pierre-Etienne]

Hi, I would like to do the same thing then Marco, can someone could tell me where I have to paste the code he publish ? thank you

[Leo]

Adding PHP: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-php/

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