Today while working on SimpleFolio 2.1 I found my self trying to edit the html portion of the ‘Read More’ link. While the link its self only has the class “more-link” I tend to complicate things a bit and i wanted to wrap the link in another div but I just couldn’t find the way to do it without having to use the excerpt, don’t get me wrong excerpt is a pretty good option but sometimes a post needs to be shown at its fullest specially if its a blog. So I started google’ing and while I found some interesting posts none talked about what I wanted to do.

So after Google didn’t get me an answer tried WordPress’ Codex and hit another blank, they didn’t even have information on the filter ’the_content_more_link’ have to admit I got a bit mad but then I tried my “last resource site” which is Adam Brown’s WP Hooks and checked the specific file that contains such filter. I found this as the solution because I finally had the variables that I could use to manipulate the link. After seeing how simple it was I just started laughing.

Alright so not so much of a tutorial more of a snippets or maybe a story? So here’s the little code that had me searching for a whole 25mins

add_filter('the_content_more_link', 'more_button');
function more_button($more_link_text) {
return '<div class="readmore"&gt;&lt;a href="' . get_permalink() . '">'.$more_link_text.'</a></div>';
}

Obviously ‘get_permalink()’ gets you the link to the post and ‘$more_link_text’ is the text you put in ‘the_content()’ to be displayed, this way you can still manipulate the style or structure of the link but giving the final user the option to change the text.

Don’t forget this little code goes into your functions.php file.