How To Add Read More Button in WordPress
1. Go to WordPress and sign in (if you don't have a blog on WordPress then sign up and register one).2. Click on "My Account" on the top-left side of horizontal toolbar.
3. Now click on "Posts" button as you can see on left side, then click on "All Posts".
4. If you already published a post then click on "Edit" button (if you don't have published post then publish one first).
5. Now find your best place to insert "Read More" button.
6. Click anywhere in post and then click on "More" icon as you can see in post editor toolbar.
- Congrats: "Read More" button is added to your blog post. Go ahead and Update/Publish your blog post and see live "Read More" button on blog.
How to Display a Read More link in WordPress Excerpts
NOTE: This method is brought to you by wpbeginner.Open functions.php file and paste the below code inside the php tags.
// Changing excerpt moreWith above mini code you can tell WordPress to replace [...] with a read more link.
function new_excerpt_more($more) {
global $post;
return '… <a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . 'Read More »' . '</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');