I was a little annoyed that the only default way from my main blog landing page, that users could continue reading my posts was to click on the blog title or the post image. I do not feel this was 100% user friendly or intuitive for the reader.

I needed to replace [...] at the end of the blog excerpt, with a link and some text that made sense such as “Read more” or Continue Reading”.

The problem:

Notice how the excerpt text ended with [...]

The Solution

Notice how the excerpt text now ends with …Continue Reading… which also links to the rest of the post.

The Fix.

I opened my WordPress “functions.php” file and added the follow code