How to Display a Read More link in WordPress Excerpts

To prevent duplicate content, improve site load time, and for better SEO many bloggers have started to use post excerpts. Excerpts are mini-descriptions of the posts shown on the main blog page, category pages, and archive pages. You can see a live example by visiting any of our categories. But if you notice, our read more button is added on a separate line from the excerpt text. In this article, we will show you how to automatically add a read more link in WordPress Excerpts.

First open your functions.php file, and paste the following code inside the php tags:

 // 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');

In this function, you are telling WordPress to remove the default more which looks like this: [...], and replace it with a link. This short and simple tutorial was requested via our suggestion form. You can suggest article ideas as well by using our suggestion form or our twitter @wpbeginner.