Title: “Continue reading” only when relevant?
Last modified: August 19, 2017

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# “Continue reading” only when relevant?

 *  Resolved [WebGremlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webgremlin/)
 * (@webgremlin)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continue-reading-only-when-relevant/)
 * Hi,
 * Currently, the “continue reading” button shows for every post, even if there 
   is nothing more to read. I know I can hide the buttons using CSS, but that hides
   the buttons permanently. I’d like the button to show only if I’ve used the “read-
   more-tag”* functionality of the WYSIWYG editor. I.e. only show the button if 
   it’s relevant. Is this something that can be done?
 * *Not sure if I’m using the right translation, as I do not use the English version
   of WP. The function I’m referring to here is bound to shift-alt-T.
 * Many thanks,
 * WebGremlin

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 *  Thread Starter [WebGremlin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webgremlin/)
 * (@webgremlin)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/continue-reading-only-when-relevant/#post-9423958)
 * Alright, I found a solution myself. At first, I thought I’d compromise and get
   rid of the ‘read more’ completely, and always have full blog posts shown by increasing
   the excerpt length in the theme settings. Then I noticed that the theme gets 
   rid of all line breaks and text markup (e.g. hyperlink colour) in the excerpts
   which show on blog page. So here’s what I did instead:
 * I copied this file to my child theme:
    `maxwell/template-parts/content.php`
 * In there, I searched for
    `<?php the_excerpt(); ?>` and replaced it with: `<?
   php the_content(); ?>`
 * Additionally, I deleted the line below the one I just replaced:
    `<?php maxwell_more_link();?
   >`
 * And finally, I deleted the following from my style.css (which I had added previously
   to hide the original “continue reading” button).
    `.more-link { display: none;}`
 * The latter was needed because WP’s Read More and Maxwell’s Read More button uses
   the same class identifier. Hence why I deleted the maxwell_more_link from content.
   php instead.
 * Now full blog posts show on the blog page, and I can use the “read-more-tag” 
   functionality of WP’s WYSIWYG editor to show a “read more” button in case I want
   one.
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