Could we have Read more link as a stand alone block?

[alaczek]

At the moment a "Read more" link is a part of the Post Excerpt block. The minimum length of Post Excerpt is 10 words, so it's not possible to create a "Read more" button or link that way. This is where I got the idea of a stand-alone Read more block, and I'd love to hear other people's opinions.

Here are some design ideas this would enable:

Having a title and a Read more link or button is especially popular in a blog grid design.

[justintadlock]

I'd be open to this as long as we could still show the read more link as part of the excerpt too. If the user selects "read more on a new line," it could generate an inner block for the excerpt.

[hollypryce]

I completely agree! A lot of the builds I work on require the "read more" link to be styled like this and a separate block would be very handy.

[alaczek]

Similar to #25450