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In order to change blog feed layout you need to customize theme files in Child Theme.

To change excerpt please add the following code to functions.php in Child Theme:

function kale_excerpt_more($more) {
	global $post;
	return '<a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '"> ' . __( 'Read more', 'kale' ) . '</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'kale_excerpt_more');

Hope that helps. Thank you for your time in this.

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I feel silly for asking, but is this possible to do on a wordpress.com site hosted on Bluehost? My site runs the Kale theme, but it’s not through www.ads-software.com.

No worries, @moneysloths! If your site is running on Bluehost, then it runs the WordPress version from www.ads-software.com.

Is a style.css sheet required in a Child Theme? Or can I just create a functions.php in a Child Theme and put in the code that @jarektheme provided?

If you do not want style changes, you do not necessarily need rules in the style sheet. But a style.css file is required in the child theme because it contains the name and the declaration that it is a child theme of the specific parent theme.

Hi Lyrathemes/Jarektheme,

I’m having some trouble with the Child theme set up. When I activate the child theme, the “Read More” option works, but the theme of the kale theme gets messed up.

I created this style.css in my file manager:

/*
 Theme Name:   Kale Child
 Theme URI:    https://example.com/kale-child/
 Description:  Kale Child Theme
 Author:       John Doe
 Author URI:   https://example.com
 Template:     kale
 Version:      1.0.0
 License:      GNU General Public License v2 or later
 License URI:  https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
 Tags:         light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready
 Text Domain:  kale-child
*/

Separately, I created this functions.php file:

<?php
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {

    $parent_style = 'kale-style'; // This is 'kale-style' for the Kale theme.

    wp_enqueue_style( $parent_style, get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style',
        get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css',
        array( $parent_style ),
        wp_get_theme()->get('Version')
    );
}

function kale_excerpt_more($more) {
	global $post;
	return '<a>ID) . '"> ' . __( 'Read more', 'kale' ) . '</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'kale_excerpt_more');

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );

?>

Also, is it easy to have the excerpt be longer? In other words, can I extend the length of the excerpt in front of “read more”?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by moneysloths.

Hi @moneysloths,

Please modify your functions.php file to include also the couple of required styles:

function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
wp_register_style('bootstrap', get_template_directory_uri() . '/assets/css/bootstrap.min.css' );
	wp_register_style('bootstrap-select', get_template_directory_uri() . '/assets/css/bootstrap-select.min.css' );
	wp_register_style('font-awesome', get_template_directory_uri().'/assets/css/font-awesome.min.css' );
	wp_register_style('owl-carousel', get_template_directory_uri().'/assets/css/owl.carousel.css' );

	$deps = array('bootstrap', 'bootstrap-select', 'font-awesome', 'owl-carousel');
	wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri().'/style.css', $deps );
}

To change excerpt length add this functions to your Child Theme:

function kale_excerpt_length( $length ) {
	return 60;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'kale_excerpt_length', 999 );

Hope that helps.