How so you fix the excerpt on the home and category pages to show "read more..."? The more tag in WordPress does not work.

Terri Holley
asked 10 years ago

Right now some of my excerpts are cut off on my categories pages. The copy becomes buried under the divider.

3 Answers

Wilfred
answered 10 years ago

Hi Terri,
To resolve this issue please follow my instruction here:
1. Add following code to custom wp_head in Dashboard / Appearance / Customizer / Custom code

<style>
@media (min-width: 980px) {
 .archive .content-inner.layout-grid { 
 overflow: hidden;
 }
 .archive .content-inner.layout-grid .hentry { 
 height: auto; 
 border-bottom: 0; 
 margin: 0; 
 padding-top: 20px; 
 position: relative; 
 overflow: visible;
 }
 .archive .content-inner.layout-grid .hentry:before { 
 content: ''; 
 position: absolute; 
 top: 0; 
 width: 500%; 
 height: 1px; 
 background: #ddd;
 }
}
</style>

2. Open content-archive.php file in /wp-content/themes/dw-focus/content-archive.php
3. Replace following code – line 100

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

with:

<?php the_content('Read more...'); ?>

Hope this helps !

Terri Holley
replied 10 years ago

Thanks! This worked perfectly for the category pages but did not change the homepage excerpts. Solution?

Mirek Kroupa
answered 10 years ago

Terri Holley:
Try my solution here:

The categories are showing long description?

Dominic Staff
replied 10 years ago

Thanks for your help !

Wilfred
answered 10 years ago

To show “Read more…” in home page, you can use the solution below:
1. Open file dw-focus-categories.php in /wp-content/themes/dw-focus/inc/widgets/dw-focus-categories.php
2. Replace following code – line 293 & 407

<?php the_excerpt();  ?>

With:

<?php the_content('Read more...'); ?>

Hope this helps!