WordPress Excerpt Tutorial

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WordPress Excerpt Tutorial


In this lesson we learn how to add “Read more” or “Continue reading” links to our posts, as well as how to manage and customize excerpts in our theme’s output. Check out my “Get a Developer Job” course:

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  3. Hi Sir brad, I got stuck on this excerpt tutorial..

    I follow your instruction on this one but still the final result is like this (more…) at the end of my post that I put a read more option instead of showing the result like this – Continue readind >>

    can you please help me out on this?..

    Thanks

  4. This tutorials are amazing. I needed to learn wordpress for a job in a very short time and this gave me all the elements I needed to defend myself in wordpress.

  6. I kinda knew how to make a basic theme from scratch but going through this tutorial makes me appreciate and understand WordPress so much more. And you’re right! It does spark your imagination. Instead of displaying the content, I used wp_trim_words to trim the content to make it look like an excerpt if the excerpt field was empty!

  8. Hello

    Thank;s for the very simple tutorial. its a very easy to understand i am looking forward to more tutorial like this keep going
    thanks again.

  9. can you make some video on related post……….. i saw lots of tutorial but could not understand the concept can u help me on this……

    Nachiket

  10. I don’t understand code language. I’m using wordpress, sydney theme and the read more button does not respond. It has the parenthesis and 3 dots…. please help

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