The “more” or “read more” tag in wordpress, is really helpful to keep a tidy looking blog interface. It helps you to define a portion of post to be displayed on the main page. But what if you want to change the text of this “read more” tag. Well, the following hack will help you achieve it
Step 1
Open your functions.php file
Step 2
Paste the following code
<?php
$custom_more = "Continue reading this post";
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'my_more_link', 10, 2 );
function my_more_link( $more_link, $more_link_text ) {
return str_replace( $more_link_text, $custom_more, $more_link );
}
?>
Thats all. By defining text in “$custom_more”, in the code above, you can have the desired custom text.
