Read More tag

Thank you for the prompt reply.

That did not work, so the “read more” is not showing.

Not a big deal, readers can still click on the title to get the rest of the post; just one of those “I wonder why” questions.

The “Read More Text” verbiage is where it is supposed to be.

The only code changed through the child theme was to add an automatically updating copyright in the theme footer, and to remove the padding in the upper banner via CSS in the stylesheet. No other changes made because this is a beautiful theme and works very well for my purposes.

Well, before I do that, can I ask if you think the problem may be that I am using the “manual excerpt” on my posts? Because I’m having the same problem on a second site with the same theme.

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If I’m correctly reading the instructions about excerpts on the WordPress site (https://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt), I may need to add a function (which I am not at all sure I am technically capable of doing) to the child theme.

From the WordPress excerpt page:

Excerpt, automatic excerpt, and teaser

The manual WordPress excerpt is often confused with the automatic excerpt or with the teaser (the part of a post that appears on the front page when you use the More tag). While both are related to the manual excerpt, they are different from it.

The relationship between the three is this: When a post has no manual excerpt and the post template uses the the_excerpt() template tag, WordPress generates an excerpt automatically by selecting the first 55 words of the post. When the post template uses the the_content() template tag, WordPress will look for the More tag and create a teaser from the content that precedes the More tag.

Thank you for your patience and assistance.

Okay, I’m not inserting the more tag from the editor, but I am using the custom excerpt box on the posts, and that is what is causing the “read more” tag to not show up.

Instead of eliminating the custom excerpt on multiple posts, will it work if I add this code to the functions.php file in the child theme?

function modify_read_more_link() {
return ‘Your Read More Link Text‘;
}
add_filter( ‘the_content_more_link’, ‘modify_read_more_link’ );

and this code to the content-single.php file in the child theme?

function child_theme_setup() {
// override parent theme’s ‘more’ text for excerpts
remove_filter( ‘excerpt_more’, ‘twentyeleven_auto_excerpt_more’ );
remove_filter( ‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘twentyeleven_custom_excerpt_more’ );
}
add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘child_theme_setup’ );

OR

could I add only this code to the content-single.php file in the child theme?

function excerpt_more_link_all_the_time() {

// Remove More Link from get_the_excerpt()
function more_link() {
return ”;
}
add_filter(‘excerpt_more’, ‘more_link’);

//Force read more link on all excerpts
function get_read_more_link() {
$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
return ‘<p>’ . $excerpt . ‘ … Read More</p>’;
}
add_filter( ‘the_excerpt’, ‘get_read_more_link’ );

}
add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘excerpt_more_link_all_the_time’ );

Thank you for any advice you can give.