Add An Arrow to Wordpress Read More Link

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Helping readers navigate your site with ease will improve their experience, and help to improve your page views. Whether you use the "Read more" link a lot, or a little, it’s important to make it easy to see, and easy for readers to understand it’s use.

The default Wordpress theme comes with a "Read more »," which is rather bland. Although there are many more complicated ways to improve the "Read more" link, here’s a quick and easy way to improve it.

In the Wordpress control panel go into your theme template editor (currently under Appearance → Editor), then open the Main Index Template (index.php) to edit. Look for the following line, or something similar to it:

<?php the_content("Read More »"); ?>

The only part you can change is the text between the double quotation marks "Read More »". Go ahead and change "»", which gives us the » (right double angle quotes), to "→" to give us a nice right arrow. Your code should now look something like this:

<?php the_content("Read More →"); ?>

Your "Read more" should now look like this:

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