Read More Link – Modify Link Text

A few days ago i found this question posted in the WordPress Community Forum, How to modify link text for the read more link. Meaning the text that appears to the link that drives you from the summary of a post, to the full content.

The answer is pretty straight forward as there is a hook you can use to change the link text to whatever you like.

Read More Link text – The Hook

All you have to do is copy and paste the code below to your Child Theme’s functions.php file. All you really have to change is the text you want to appear instead of the default ‘Read more’.

/**
*Modify The Read More Link Text
*/
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'modify_read_more_link' );
function modify_read_more_link() {
return '<a class="more-link" href="' . get_permalink() . '">Show me more</a>';
}