Hide or Show a Button Based on Character Count

In the provided WordPress code, the intention is to conditionally display a 'Read More' button based on the length of the excerpt defined in the functions.php file. However, the code fails to connect the button's visibility to the excerpt character count correctly. The `$excerpt_length` must be evaluated properly after obtaining the excerpt. Adjusting the structure of PHP logic and ensuring that content is output in the correct sequence will remedy the issue, allowing the button to appear or disappear accordingly.

The button ‘Read More’ does not connect to the excerpt function due to structural issues in the conditional check and how the excerpt is being retrieved.

Ensure that the `$excerpt_length` is correctly calculated from `get_the_excerpt()` before the HTML elements are outputted.

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