Change character count before "read more"

  • Hi Folks,

    I know this has been covered many times but I’m stuck. I’m not much of a coder. I’m using a theme called WP-Creativix and I want to change when the “read more” is inserted. On my home page there is a slide with text and there is plenty of room to display all the text but it gets cut off with only a few words left. I can’t seem to find where that is defined. Any help is very much appreciated. Thank you in advance!

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  • If you want to increase the number of symbols/letters in the excerpt of the slideshow, you can do this with a minor modification to the tpl_home.php file of your theme.

    Assuming that your WordPress is installed directly in the public_html folder on your hosting account, the path to the file will be public_html/wp-content/themes/wp-creativix/tpl_home.php. You can also use the built-in editor in the admin panel to edit the file. In the tpl_home.php file find the code:

    $wpcx_slideshow_text = wpcx_cut_text(get_the_excerpt(), 290);

    and increase the number 290.

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter jburnard

    (@jburnard)

    Hello!

    Thank you so much! That is exactly what I wanted ?? Something weird is happening now though…. I tried increasing it, and it worked but then at a certain point it won’t increase anymore and it inserts:

    […]Continue reading ?Welcome!?

    Welcome is indeed the name of the post but I don’t want to have a link to it, I just want to show all the text in that slide (there is plenty of room.) Any chance you have an idea of what I need to do?

    Again, I can’t thank you enough for your response ??

    Thread Starter jburnard

    (@jburnard)

    Anyone at all? I just need to show the text, but all of the text, not the link to the page.

    If you need to see what I mean here is the link. It’s the text at the top right, next to the image. Any thoughts are very much appreciated!

    https://www.burnardweb.com/caa/

    Thank you

    Moved to: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/please-help-with-read-more-and-continue?replies=3

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