"Read more" in masonry gallery / portoflio

Hi everyone,

I have read extensively about this topic but it seems none of the solutions I found on the forum are working…

My goal is to add a “Read more” link to the masonry gallery, right after the excerpt.

I have found some solutions here and there, but none of them work :

1) Adding a filter in functions.php

add_filter('avf_masonry_loop_prepare','avia_change_default_link', 10, 2);
function avia_change_default_link($loop, $entries)
{
	foreach($entries->posts as $key => $entry)
    {
        if($entry->post_type == "post")
        {
            $more 	 		 =  "<br /><span class='masonry-more-link-arrow'>".__('Read more','avia_framework')."</span>";
			$loop['content'] =   avia_backend_truncate($entry->post_content, apply_filters( 'avf_masonry_excerpt_length' , 60) , apply_filters( 'avf_masonry_excerpt_delimiter' , " "), "…", true, '') . $more;  
        }
    }

    return $loop;
}

This does not work, since the excerpt of all articles / portfolio items shown in the masonry are then the same (and equal to the excerpt of the last item). It seems there is a variation on the forum with “$loop[‘key’][‘content’]” instead of “$loop[‘content’]”, but this doesn’t work either.

2) Adding some Jquery code in functions.php : as shown at the bottom of the 1st link, suggested by Ismael (#813683)

// masonry read more
function ava_custom_script_mod(){
?>
<script>
(function($){
	function a() {
			$('<div class="av-masonry-read-more">Read More</div>').insertAfter('.av-inner-masonry-content-pos');     
	}

	a();
})(jQuery);
</script>
<?php
}
add_action('wp_footer', 'ava_custom_script_mod');

This works, however if you have a “Load more” button (eg not all your articles are initially shown, and the user can add some by clicking on this button) then the new articles (which are uploaded after page load) won’t have this tweak, so it doesn’t work very well after all.

3) Last, the code change in masonry_entries.php suggested by Ismael on the 1st link (middle of page, #410335) didn’t work at all for me, even though I did a copy of the masonry_entries.php file and set it up in child theme > config-templatebuilder > aviashortcodes.

Since there are several forum threads about this topic / problem, it would seem to me that this is a much-needed option and not only for me…

Any suggestion would be welcomed…

Thanks by advance,

Bastien

• This topic was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by Ybastien.