My posts text is getting cut short on the site

  • Hi, I am working on a client’s WordPress site. The homepage has several posts which are getting cut short, ending with “[…].”

    I need the ending ([…]) to say “read more” and when clicked, either link to a page, or show the entire post.

    You can see the site here: https://neworleansadventuretours.com/
    Look at the section titled, “Ne Orleans City Tours.” The title is clickable, but the ending of the post is not.

    How can I fix this?

    thanks

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  • check if the theme is using ‘the_excerpt()’ in index.php;
    if yes, read:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/the_excerpt
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/the_excerpt#Make_the_.22read_more.22_link_to_the_post

    Thread Starter lelales

    (@lelales)

    Hi Alchymith, Thanks for the response. I viewed the code on the index.php page, and did a search for “the_excerpt”, but did not find it. Basically, I did a “view source” with my browser and downloaded the homepage code. I am assuming this would be the index.php.

    Maybe the client is using some other function to truncate the posts. I do not know what to look for, or to fix this.

    Any other ideas or suggestions are appreciated

    thanks
    -S

    It won’t show in the source code from the browser. You will need to look inside of the actual file. As alchymyth mentioned, you can find it in the index.php file inside the current theme directory.

    /wp-content/themes/magaling/

    index.php, line 47:

    <div class="entry"><?php the_excerpt(); ?></div>

    I think that’s the one you are after. You may want to check the themes options pages first and just verify that there is not an option to show either the excerpt or the full post on the front page before you manually edit the anything.

    Thread Starter lelales

    (@lelales)

    Thanks for the info Clayton James and Alchymyth. I have requested the FTP info from the client, and will look at this again when I can download the files.

    thanks again
    -S

    if you have administrator rights on the blog, you can view and edit the theme files in ‘dashboard – appearance – editor’, then select the index.php from the list on the right.

    Thread Starter lelales

    (@lelales)

    Hey Alchymyth,

    thanks so much . . . your info worked just right.

    thanks again,
    -S

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