How to Customize “Read More” in Thesis Theme WordPress

Well it took me a lot of researching, reading and experimenting before I get to edit the “read more” text in my thesis theme.

“read more” is the text link you see when created a post and add the <!–more–> tag in the content. You will insert the tag and it looks like this:

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And the post would look like this:

Email is a high-tech means of communication and is also a great marketing device. It lets your business get in touch with target clients effectively compared to other tools of advertising. This is because email has an extensive reach and can easily spread out to a lot of prospects.

read more…

To edit the text and to have full control on what  text you wanted to put in the link these are the steps you need to follow:

1. First go to the directory wp-content/themes/thesis_17/lib/functions and look for the file loop.php. (this is in thesis 1.7 probably the same with older version) Make sure you have back-up your files just in case.

2. In loop.php file look on the code and locate function thesis_post_content()

3. In the function check if you can see the_content(thesis_read_more_text()); edit the text in red.

These are samples of what you can put on “the_content()” function:

If you want to change the words from read more…. to something else, just type in the new words into the tag:

the_content("Continue reading the article..."); - simple way of editing the text

You can add the css in the text tag, too. So you can add more style on the text link.

the_content('<span class="moretext">Read more...</span>');

There is another parameter in the_content() template tag which will include the title of the post in the more text. Through the use of the_title()  tag, the title of the article is included:

the_content('Continue reading ' . get_the_title('', '', false));

The design possibilities with CSS are unlimited, and WordPress allows you to use images in many of their Template Tags, including the more tag. Get more sophisticated and make it fun. To add image on the link.

<?php the_content('Read more...<img src="' . bloginfo('template_directory'). '/images/book.gif" alt="read more" title="Read more..." />'); ?>

Those are some of the ways and steps on how to edit the read more text on your wordpress blog more specifically on a thesis theme. Do some experimenting and make coding in wordpress a lot of fun.

Hope that helps. Good luck and enjoy!