Read More in the actual excerpt

Question

I'm using WP version 4.4.4. I have some posts where it has a continue reading button and link to the actual excerpt. My problem is the excerpt also has a continue reading button. Here is my code at the end of functions.php.

function new_excerpt_more($more) {
global $post;
return '... <a class="moretag" href="'. get_permalink($post->ID). '"> continue reading &raquo;</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

Fairly new to WordPress. I searched this site but nothing worked for me. Thanks.

Answer 1

Your question is not entirely clear, but it looks like you simply want to remove the continue reading button from the excerpt. You have already found the offending code. Nothing stops you from modifying it in this way:

function new_excerpt_more($more) {
global $post;
return '';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

To do this properly you must not change the theme file itself, but place this code in the functions.php of a child theme, which further only needs to consist of an almost empty style.css file. If a function in a child theme has the same name as in the parent theme it will override the latter.

Answer 2

[ added answer to enable closure of the question]

After discussion in comments under the other answer the problem seems to be not with the filter, but with a missing template for single posts/pages.