It's not logical that the "Read more"-button disappears when you create a manual excerpt

[hero2]

When you create a manual excerpt on a Post, the "Read more"-button disappears on the Blog-page. That is NOT logical, if you ask me!
I was told by the Astra Pro Theme support that this is a default behaviour of WordPress.
To me, this is a bug, but formally I guess it's a feature request, to let the user decide whether to have a "Read more"-button or not, and how it should look! And NOT let it depend on whether you have created a manual excerpt for that post!

I will try to add a screen shot which shows that the "Read more"-button is only visible on Post-thumbnails where I have not manually created the excerpt.

[hero2]

Screen shot of Blog-page, showing 2 Post-thumbnails, with and without "Read more"-button

[costdev]

Hi @hero2, welcome to Trac and thanks for opening this ticket.

The "More" text/link has only been added for automatically generated excerpts since WordPress 1.5.0 (circa 2005). ​Code Reference

To add this as the default now should be considered very carefully with respect to backward compatibility, expectations, and theme-specific needs.

Alternatively, you can add the "More" text/link to all excerpts with something like this:

<?php

add_filter( 'wp_trim_excerpt', 'myprefix_add_read_more', 999 );
function myprefix_add_read_more( $text ) {
        $read_more = apply_filters( 'excerpt_more', ' [&hellip;]' );

        if ( ! str_ends_with( $text, $read_more ) ) {
                $text = rtrim( $text ) . $read_more;
        }

        return $text;
}

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• Changing the Version property to 1.5 when this was introduced with wp_trim_excerpt().
• As this can be achieved using a filter without changing this behaviour on all sites, I'm tentatively adding close for this to be closed as wontfix.
• However, I'm also adding 2nd-opinion to gather thoughts from others on this.

[jakariaistauk]

Hi @hero2 ,
Thanks for the ticket. If there is no Read More button a site visitor can not understand that there is more content about this topic. so I think Read More button should add for both manual and automatic excerpts.

[hero2]

The thing that does not make sense to me is that WP displays Post-items on the Blog-page differently depending on whether there is a manual excerpt or an automatically generated excerpt. That does not make sense.
Instead, it should be the user that switches the "Read more"-button on or off on ALL Post-items at once.

[jakariaistauk]

Replying to hero2:

The thing that does not make sense to me is that WP displays Post-items on the Blog-page differently depending on whether there is a manual excerpt or an automatically generated excerpt. That does not make sense.
Instead, it should be the user that switches the "Read more"-button on or off on ALL Post-items at once.

Yes. you are right. I agree with you.

[hero2]

On top of that comes the fact that the built-in "Read more"-link is multilingual (using WPML plugin) but the code snippets I have found for re-creating it are NOT... :-(