Blogging Mints

How to: Change the Read More link in WordPress

Always wondered how to change the “read more” link/tag in posts in WordPress? Here is how!

This is how you change the output for <! - - m o r e - -> in your posts;

Go to the Presentation tab and then Theme Editor. Look in the theme files list for your index.php file or, as it also is called, Main Index Template. Skim through the coding until you find a line similar this one:

<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry...'); ?>

All you have to do is to change the text “Read the rest of this entry…” to whatever you like, but remember to keep the ‘ -s around your text! And then save the file! All done!

If you want to digg deeper in to the customization of it, read about Customizing_the_Read_More at the WordPress codex.