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Thanks so much for all your help… sadly I still can’t get this to work. Not sure where I am going wrong.

Since I am not using function.php in my child theme for anything else, I just created a new php file & placed your above code 9with the open/close tags — oops) in it, before uploading it to the child theme folder on my server. Unfortunately, the Read Mores still did not show up for the relevant posts. ??

Okay, when I tried adding the new function to functions.php in the child theme, the Read Mores still did not appear. The top of the page showed the code instead: function sparkling_excerpt_more( $more ) { return ' ' . __('READ MORE', 'SPARKLING') . ''; } add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'sparkling_excerpt_more' );"\

So I thought maybe it was because that was the only code in my functions.php file. When I tried cloning the functions.php file & adding it to my child-theme folder (with the new code added), I got this:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare sparkling_content_width() (previously declared in /home/chimer/public_html/browngirlcomics.com/wp-content/themes/sparkling-child/functions.php:19) in /home/chimer/public_html/browngirlcomics.com/wp-content/themes/sparkling/functions.php on line 23

At which point I added it to the parent function.php file. Fortunately, no errors appeared… but the read mores are still absent. :S

The site is browngirlcomics dot com, by the way.

Thanks! The first step was fine, but the second step is not working for me. I either get major errors (resulting in the whole site breaking), or just… nothing at all.

This is the code I’m using now:

<?php

/**
 * Function to remove default slider scripts
 */
function sparkling_dequeue_script() {
    wp_dequeue_script( 'flexslider-customization' );
    wp_dequeue_script( 'flexslider-js' );
}
add_action( 'wp_print_scripts', 'sparkling_dequeue_script', 100 

);

/**
 * Function to remove default slider CSS.
*/
function sparkling_dequeue_style() {
    wp_dequeue_style( 'flexslider-css' );
}
add_action( 'wp_print_styles', 'sparkling_dequeue_style', 100 );

// Add slider CSS only if is front page ans slider is enabled

if( ( of_get_option('sparkling_slider_checkbox') == 1 ) { 

wp_enqueue_style( 'flexslider-css', get_template_directory_uri

().'/inc/css/flexslider.css' );
  }

// Add slider JS only if is front page ans slider is enabled

if( ( of_get_option('sparkling_slider_checkbox') == 1 ) 

wp_enqueue_script( 'flexslider-js', get_template_directory_uri() 

. '/inc/js/flexslider.min.js', array('jquery'), '20140222', true 

);
	}

// Flexslider customization
  if( ( of_get_option

('sparkling_slider_checkbox') == 1 ) {
    wp_enqueue_script( 

'flexslider-customization', get_template_directory_uri() . 

'/inc/js/flexslider-custom.js', array('jquery', 'flexslider-js'), 

'20140716', true );
  }

/**

* Featured image slider, displayed on front page for static page 

and blog

*/

function sparkling_featured_slider() {
  if ( of_get_option( 

'sparkling_slider_checkbox' ) == 1 ) {    echo '<div 

class="flexslider">';
      echo '<ul class="slides">';

$count = of_get_option( 'sparkling_slide_number' );

$slidecat =of_get_option( 'sparkling_slide_categories' );

$query = new WP_Query( array( 'cat' =>$slidecat,'posts_per_page' 

=>$count ) );
        if ($query->have_posts()) :
          while 

($query->have_posts()) : $query->the_post();

          echo 

'<li>';
            if ( (function_exists( 'has_post_thumbnail' )) 

&& ( has_post_thumbnail() ) ) :
              echo 

get_the_post_thumbnail();
            endif;

              echo 

'<div class="flex-caption">';
                echo '<a href="'. 

get_permalink() .'">';
                  if ( get_the_title() != 

'' ) echo '<h2 class="entry-title">'. get_the_title().'</h2>';

              if ( get_the_excerpt() != '' ) echo '<div 

class="excerpt">' . get_the_excerpt() .'</div>';

echo '</a>';
              echo '</div>';

              endwhile;

         endif;

          echo '</li>';
      echo '</ul>';
    echo 

' </div>';
  }
}

I get the error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘{‘ in /[…]/wp-content/themes/sparkling-child/functions.php on line 22

Thanks so much. I still can’t get this to work. Could there be an error in my original code to load the scrips on all the pages?