Change [...] at the end of excerpts to hyperlinks?

1. 

   terry (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   I apologize in advance if this has already been addressed somewhere. I looked through the forum but didn't find anything . . .

   I've created a site using Hybrid News. The audience this site targets does not always understand to click the title of an excerpt to view the full post.

   Is it possible for the [...] at the end of each excerpt to be replaced by something like [Full Story] or [Read More], as a hyperlink to the full post?

   If so, please tell me exactly how to do this, and provide any code changes, if possible. I'm not a programmer but I can follow clear instructions.

   Thank you!

   Terry

2. 

   depex (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   This works for me. Just drop it into functions.php

   add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'my_excerpts' );
   
   function my_excerpts($content) {
   	global $post;
   	$more = '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '" title="' . the_title_attribute('echo=0') . '">[...]</a>';
   	$content = str_replace('[...]', $more, $content);
   	return $content;
   }

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   terry (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   Thank you so much! It worked perfectly and is exactly the solution I was looking for.

   Terry

4. 

   Sharmil McKee (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   You must have been reading my mind. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
   Sharmil McKee

5. 

   kalueke (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   It did work, sort of.

   The "read more" is placed at the beginning of the last sentence, rather than at the end where the (...) were originally located.

   Did I do something incorrectly, or is there another way of doing this so that the "read more" shows at the end of the last sentence, hopefully with a couple or three spaces allowing for a balanced look. Thanks

6. 

   slipn (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   what is the link to where it is happening on your site kalueke?

7. 

   kalueke (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   Sorry. I removed the code, but I'll reinstate it so you can see what it looks like. The link to my site is:

   http://www.thepubliceditor.com/blog1/index.php

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   slipn (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   When I inspect element with firebug you have float left on your more link in your css styling.

   If I try float right it goes on the right side

9. 

   kalueke (Member)
   Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

   Thanks much. That did the trick. I appreciate your swift response.

10. 

    slipn (Member)
    Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

    Sweet...I seldom get it right but I like trying to help. I'm sure Justin sometimes thinks oh no there goes slipn trying to help again...

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    Justin Tadlock (Administrator)
    Posted 7 months ago | Permalink

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