Joomla. How to change read more button titles

This tutorial will show you how to modify the read more button titles in Joomla.

Article options

Using the Joomla article options you can define the custom read more text for single article.

1. Open Joomla admin panel
2. Go to Content > Articles Manager.
3. Open the Article Options tab
4. Scroll down and in the Read More text field  type your custom button title

Save your changes using the save button at the top.

Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:

Joomla. How to change read more button titles

Language files. Content

In case you want to change all article read more button titles at once you need to edit the language INI files.

1. Open your Joomla installation directory
2. Go to languages/en-GB directory

All articles in Joomla are displayed using the Content Component (blog page, home page etc) so to change the read more titles for these pages you need to edit the en-GB.com_content.ini

  COM_CONTENT_READ_MORE="Read  more: "
  COM_CONTENT_READ_MORE_TITLE="Read  more…"
  COM_CONTENT_REGISTER_TO_READ_MORE="Register  to read more..."

Where COM_CONTENT_READ_MORE_TITLE is the language variable and Read more… is the button title. You can change it the way you want.

Language files. Modules

In case your articles are displayed using the Joomla modules (e.g. Articles – Newsflash ) you need to edit the module language files.

They are also located in languages/en-GB  directory and have titles common with the module name. E.g. for the Articles – Newsflash  the language file would be en-GB.mod_articles_news.ini

To change the button titles edit the language variables:

  MOD_ARTICLES_NEWS_READMORE="Read  more..."
  MOD_ARTICLES_NEWS_READMORE_REGISTER="Register  to Read More"
  

Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:

Joomla. How to change read more button titles