Customising "Read more" text in excerpts

[jmac88]

I am pretty new to WordPress but have a background programming in VBA and C#. I experimented with Atahualpa for a while but found it too limiting. Then I found Suffusion. I have been playing around with both trying to get the look and feel I want and trying to incorporate the various plugins and other tools I need to get started and have gone through a steep learning curve with Hosting Plans, Google Custom Search, Google WebTools & Analytics and WordPress installations (harder as I'm running mine on Windows hosting so I can share my existing multi-site plan).

I have now decided to go with Suffusion but still have some work to get my desired effects. Nothing complicated but a few things I cannot figure out.

The first one is this. I want the Read More text in an excerpt to be changed to "Continue>>" on a new line and right aligned with the post container. I have achieved that using this

[...] <p style="text-align:right;margin:0;font-size:10pt;line-height:10pt"> <a href=%permalink%>Continue »</a></p>

This worked in Atahualpa but in Suffusion, the %permalink% doesn't act as a variable so I have no link in the output. Can anyone advise how I should do this.
Also, I can't figure out how to override the style so that the "Continue" is on the next line without the automatic space before paragraph added. I tried this with <br> instead of <p but it was the same.

[sayontan]

Go to Suffusion Options -> Layouts -> Layout: Excerpt / List / Tile / Mosaic / Full -> General Excerpt settings. You will see the options there to customize "[...]". You don't need to modify any files in the theme.

[Colin]

Suffusion Options > Layouts > Layout Excerpt ... and play with the options there.

[jmac88]

Thanks

But that is what I am modifying and have shown in my original post what I added in the customise box for "replacing the "{...}"
But I don't know how to add in a permalink to the post. In the Atahualpa, %Permalink% worked as the permalink variable. But in Suffusion it does not. What I am asking is what do I put in place of the %Permalink% to get the actual permalink to be included

[sayontan]

The fact is, you don't need to do anything. Simply put in "Continue &raquo;" there and you will be fine. Suffusion will take care of the permalink by itself.

[jmac88]

Awesome

I hadn't realised it would do it automatically. I'm forcing the "Continue" down a line and to the right. I wrapped the word in html as shown below and am keeping the [...]

[...]<p style="text-align:right;margin:0;font-size:10pt;line-height:10pt">Continue »</p>

But I could probably wrap it in a div tag and assign a handle name and use a css in the custom includes. May give that a try later

Many thanks

[sayontan]

The button is already wrapped in the right elements. You could add some custom CSS under Back-end -> Custom Includes -> Custom Styles to set this in a new line. If you provide a URL I can tell you what to do.

[jmac88]

Site is in test just now. URL is

http://www.excelcodex.com/index.php/whats-new/

This page shows the issues I'm trying to resolve.
I am also trying to reduce the gap below the bottom paragraph, either the last paragraph in the post or the space below the "continue". It would also be nice to remove the space above the Continue so the whole thing is a bit more compacted. You will see that I have managed already to reduce the space above/below the "Posted By" line.

Many thanks

[Colin]

try

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.post-footer {margin: -5px 0}
p, .p {margin-bottom: 0.1em;}


In your custom styles. This should get you close.