Help pls with permalink..?

[Taffy1957]

Hi Guys,

 

I'm sure this is simple for someone clued up on php coding, but no matter what I try, I cannot get it to work ! 

I have the following php code in my theme functions.php code sheet;

 

echo " <a href='"; the_permalink();      
echo "'>"."...Read More On ";      
the_title_shorten(45,'...');      
echo "</a>";

 

This code creates a link to the full article from an excerpt on the home page, but the problem is, it is including the words "Read More On" in the hyperlink, which I feel is not good from a SEO point of view !

I would be very grateful if someone could show me how to rewrite this piece of code so that the "Read More On" would be printed as plain text & not be included in the hyperlink.

 

Thanks

[WebStyles]

If I'm not missing anything, that seems like it should work fine, unless the function the_permalink(); is also generating html code instead of just echoing a link. I would have a look at that function. remove everything else and just echo that function to see what it outputs.

[Taffy1957]

If I'm not missing anything, that seems like it should work fine, unless the function the_permalink(); is also generating html code instead of just echoing a link. I would have a look at that function. remove everything else and just echo that function to see what it outputs.

 

Hi WS,

No that code is wrapping the text (Read More On + Article Title) to form a hyperlink and what I want to try to do is move "Read More On"

so that it gets printed as just plain text prior to the hyperlinked article title text.

 

So I need to change from this - Read More On Asus Laptops

 

To This - Read More On Asus Laptops

 

I can manage it on here easy enough but I just can't seem to get that php code altered correctly so it will work..?

[Ollifi]

Do you mean this:

 

echo "...Read More On ";
echo"<a href='"; the_permalink();      
echo "'>";      
the_title_shorten(45,'...');      
echo "</a>";

[Taffy1957]

Do you mean this:

 

echo "...Read More On ";
echo"<a href='"; the_permalink();      
echo "'>";      
the_title_shorten(45,'...');      
echo "</a>";

 

Yes thanks so much Ollifi, that worked perfectly !