Removing Read More or shifting further down

  • Resolved yvetteweston

    (@yvetteweston)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,
    Not sure if there is a simple answer. I have the School theme and am at
    https://bigtroubleinlittlenappies.com/
    When using wp.com I clicked the ‘more’ button to give an excerpt of my choosing, but with my new theme here, even though I am set under settings-reader to show the full post, I have the automatic ‘read more’ which I understand is written in code somewhere that I don’t know how to access!

    It isn’t the end of the world having this if it can’t be removed but the main issue is it is placed so close to the title of my next post, that clicking on the bottom half of it, takes the reader to the wrong link. I have done this myself countless times in the last 2 days and if I’m irritated I’m sure others will be and probably not stick around.

    So is there a way to remove it or to move it / the next title further away from each other please?

    Thanks for any help,
    Yvette

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  • .btn.btn-primary.kt-read-more-link {
  float: right;
  margin-bottom: 14px;
}

    You could try that CSS rule. Either in a child theme, or use a custom CSS plug in or maybe, your theme has the facility to add custom CSS.

    If you don’t want to push the button to the right hand side of the page, don’t add float:right. You can adjust the pixel length to suit.

    Thread Starter yvetteweston

    (@yvetteweston)

    Thank you so much – the code has worked perfectly and moved the button to the right, further down.

    Do you know if there is a way to remove having an excerpt and read more button, or is it very complicated? No problem if you don’t have time to comment further – I really appreciate the help already, it’s made a big difference!

    OK, so if you want to remove the button, you could change the rule I gave you earlier and just add display: none; like this:

    .btn.btn-primary.kt-read-more-link {
display: none;
}

    Personally, I prefer not to use display; none; but if it gets you there, then I suppose it will do.

    I think that both the excerpt and the button are called in The Loop. if you want them gone, then The Loop needs to be edited which is PHP.

    If I were doing that, I would just create a child theme, find The Loop, add it to my child theme and try deleting/commenting out stuff, until I got it right. But I wouldn’t recommend that workflow to anyone!

    Try searching Google for, “WordPress remove excerpt” or “WordPress remove read more” and see where that gets you. You are not the only one who’s wanted to do it.

    If you want to persist, try one at a time and then start a new thread in the forum.

    You might also go to the theme developer and actually, if it is a commercial theme, then you need to go to the theme dev for support.

    Thread Starter yvetteweston

    (@yvetteweston)

    Brilliant, thanks for all the suggestions. I will have a proper look tomorrow and try. Think I will also contact the theme developer (it’s a free theme, not commercial) to see if they are considering changing it. It seems a shame that it limits how the site looks in such a big way.

    Thank you again!

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