Adding a More link to Post Excerpts

  • theslink2000

    (@theslink2000)


    4 years, 11 months ago

    Hi,

    I love the functionality your plugin provides, but I’ve hit an issue. I’ve been trying to create a blog archive and it’s looking great apart from the lack of a working excerpt feature.

    I’ve seen this thread answering this question to a point, but it lacks one thing, a read more link.

    I’ve been trying to add something to the Advanced -> After field like this:

    ... <a href="'<?php the_permalink() ?>'">See More</a>

    But it doesn’t seem to render the php and just breaks. If I keep it to HTML it works fine but I can’t use that for dynamic content.

    Do you have any suggestions to work around this please as this is kind of essential.

    Many thanks.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Abid Hasan

    (@abidhasan112)

    4 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, @theslink2000 ,

    Strange thing is you and I faced into the same issue! From your topic, I was able to know that Excerpt can be achievable with a normal Text Editor – Post Summary (Dynamic Tags). So I can populate the excerpt.

    And after that just hit on my head that, Read More button also can be achievable in the same way. Just take a default Elementor Button and select Post URL from the Dynamic Tags just like you did for the excerpt: https://prnt.sc/163e3cp

    This will solve your issue I believe 😉

    Thread Starter theslink2000

    (@theslink2000)

    4 years, 11 months ago

    Hi @abidhasan112,

    That’s not a bad workaround, thanks!

    I came up with something where I set the link to simple # and then used a plugin that makes the entire Elementor column a link to actually send the user to the blog post and some css to change the Read More text colour when you hover over the column.

    But I don’t think this will play too well with multiple posts in the archive, the CSS especially will probably trigger all of them at once, so I’ll give your method a go at some point soon.

    Still, this seems like a pretty large issue so it’d be nice to hear the devs comment on this and hopefully have a roadmap to include these other widgets functionality in the near future as this plugin is amazing and feels like it should be core Elementor, shame it’s still a little rough around the edges like this.

    mediatoni

    (@mediatoni)

    4 years, 11 months ago

    I second that. We also have the problem that we’re not able to show only an excerpt with a read more link, but only the whole post content which we have to cut of via CSS.

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