Use read more not character count for posts in archive?

Shapely
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Hello,

I set a read more in my posts, however it seems that the excerpts are using a character counter instead. How can I set up this them to just use the read more tag for excerpts?

The loop looks normal, and I didn’t see anything in the functions file?

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Hi @pierrebalian,

I hope you are well today and thank you for your question.

Do you mean you have used the following read more tag in the post content?

<!–more–>

Could you please share me the page URL from your site where it’s not displaying correctly so that i can troubleshoot it?

Kind Regards,
Movin

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Hello Movin,
Thanks for the help.

https://dev.overnitemalekit.com/category/overnite-male-blog/

Here is a link to the page, I did use the more tag in all of these articles, but as you can see it seems to be using a character counter instead because you can see some are cut off mid-word.

I just installed this wordpress and theme last week, I didn’t modify any of your loops and all of my plugins aren’t content related so I dont think it is from any of them.

Pierre

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You can try achieving this by using the attached custom child theme of shapely theme that contains some custom code.

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Hello Movin,

Thanks for the help, using the_content instead of the_excerpt seemed to work.

I have attached an image. In it you see I have both loops in the template so you can see the issue.

On the top loop using the_excerpt you can see it trimming at some predefined word count. The read more link is a link with the class btn btn-filled. It is in its own div, and it falls below the text.

On the bottom loop, it is using your new code calling the_content. However the Read More is a link not in a div with the class more-link.

I compared the code of both links, and they look identical. I do not understand why one gets the correct class and the other does not? Looking at both loops they look identical while calling the read more link:

   the_content( sprintf(
                    /* translators: %s: Name of current post. */
                    wp_kses( __( 'Continue reading %s <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'shapely' ), array( 'span' => array( 'class' => array() ) ) ),
                    the_title( '<span class="screen-reader-text">"', '"</span>', false )
                ) );

Thank you for your help!

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If you want to display both the buttons similar then try using the attached updated child theme of Shapely theme removing the previously provided child theme.