semoliner

The solution to this was to add this to the functions.php file:

add_action('wp', 'inital_call_back');

function inital_call_back(){
	if ( is_search() ) {
		add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'the_excerpt_more_link', 21 );
	}

}

function new_excerpt_more($more) {
	return '';
	}
	add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more', 21 );
	function the_excerpt_more_link( $excerpt ){
	$post = get_post();
	$excerpt .= '<p class="read-more"><a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">Read more ?</a></p>';
	return $excerpt;
	}

Actually… this has caused some issue with other pages (which do not use entrance animations).

Eg.
Go to the home page and enter “parents” as a search term
You will get only one result
Click on Read more>>
You will see that the page formatting is disrupted

Remove ?highlight=”parents” from the URL in the address bar and hit Enter, the page then reloads with the correct formatting.

Yes! Awesome – thank you so much ??

Thank you – no wonder I couldn’t get it to work ??
I appreciate your help with this and will refer to Astra support.

Thanks for the quick response! While I can edit search.php, I really have no idea where to add that line (as I don’t understand the contents of search.php). I experimented by pasting in various places without success. Here is my standard Astra search.php, in case you are able to suggest where I need to paste it?

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying search results pages.
 *
 * @link https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/#search-result
 *
 * @package Astra
 * @since 1.0.0
 */

if ( ! defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
	exit; // Exit if accessed directly.
}

get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( astra_page_layout() == 'left-sidebar' ) : ?>

	<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php endif ?>

	<div id="primary" <?php astra_primary_class(); ?>>

		<?php astra_primary_content_top(); ?>

		<?php astra_archive_header(); ?>

		<?php astra_content_loop(); ?>		

		<?php astra_pagination(); ?>

		<?php astra_primary_content_bottom(); ?>

	</div><!-- #primary -->

<?php if ( astra_page_layout() == 'right-sidebar' ) : ?>

	<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php endif ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>