From 5fa4c984fde76402eb218692bbb898bd65f118c0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Biryukov <sergeybiryukov@git.wordpress.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:19:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Twenty Nineteen: Add "Continue reading" link for post
 excerpts.

This ensures that archive pages have a meaningful link text after the excerpts.

Props metalandcoffee, alex27, sabernhardt, mdrockwell, laurelfulford.
Fixes #46177.

git-svn-id: https://develop.svn.wordpress.org/trunk@49831 602fd350-edb4-49c9-b593-d223f7449a82
---
 .../themes/twentynineteen/functions.php       | 24 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/functions.php b/src/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/functions.php
index ed23d3e0d9..4fd0b76d6e 100644
--- a/src/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/functions.php
+++ b/src/wp-content/themes/twentynineteen/functions.php
@@ -204,6 +204,30 @@ function twentynineteen_widgets_init() {
 }
 add_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentynineteen_widgets_init' );
 
+/**
+ * Replaces "[...]" (appended to automatically generated excerpts) with ... and
+ * a 'Continue reading' link.
+ *
+ * @since Twenty Nineteen 2.6
+ *
+ * @param string $link Link to single post/page.
+ * @return string 'Continue reading' link prepended with an ellipsis.
+ */
+function twentynineteen_excerpt_more( $link ) {
+	if ( is_admin() ) {
+		return $link;
+	}
+
+	$link = sprintf(
+		'<p class="link-more"><a href="%1$s" class="more-link">%2$s</a></p>',
+		esc_url( get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) ),
+		/* translators: %s: Post title. */
+		sprintf( __( 'Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "%s"</span>', 'twentynineteen' ), get_the_title( get_the_ID() ) )
+	);
+	return ' &hellip; ' . $link;
+}
+add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'twentynineteen_excerpt_more' );
+
 /**
  * Set the content width in pixels, based on the theme's design and stylesheet.
  *