Add a “Read more” to blog post excerpts

WordPress will display an ellipses after an excerpt by default. I feel it’s more user-friendly to show a “read more” link or something to let visitors know that they can click to read more even if they can click on the post’s title to view it. I searched online and found this very helpful tip:

How to Display a Read More link in WordPress Excerpts

I was able to quickly add this code to my functions.php file and it worked like a charm.

// Changing excerpt more
function new_excerpt_more($more) {
global $post;
return '… <a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">' . 'Read More &raquo;' . '</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

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