How to add an article title to the “Read more...” link?

Find the following files 

• (joomla)/components/com_content/views/category/tmpl/blog_item.php
• (joomla)/components/com_content/views/frontpage/tmpl/default_item.php
• (joomla)/components/com_content/views/section/tmpl/blog_item.php

• (yourtemplate)/html/com_content/category/blog_item.php
• (yourtemplate)/html/com_content/frontpage/default_item.php
• (yourtemplate)/html/com_content/section/blog_item.php

Open these files using a text editor:

Nearly at the bottom of these files you should be seeing something like:

<a href="<?php echo $this->item->readmore_link; ?>" class="readon<?php echo $this->item->params->get('pageclass_sfx'); ?>">

<?php if ($this->item->readmore_register) :

echo JText::_('Register to read more...');

elseif ($readmore = $this->item->params->get('readmore')) :

echo $readmore;

else :

echo JText::sprintf('Read more...');

endif; ?></a> 

Change the line

echo JText::sprintf('Read more...'); 

into

echo JText::sprintf('Read more', $this->item->title); 

 And there you have it ... you have a nice edit without actually hacking your core code. This edit will survive a Joomla upgrade :)