Read More Link no working in Post Loop

I resolved the Read more issue by putting a function in functions.php in my child theme. According to what I have read here at this discussion board, this was supposed to have been resolved in the post query widget. It was not resolved in mine. Anyhow, the code snippet that someone can put ion their functions.php in the CHILD THEME (so updates don’t override it) is this.

function new_excerpt_more( $more ) {
	return ' <a class="read-more" href="' . get_permalink( get_the_ID() ) . '">' . __( '...Read More', 'your-text-domain' ) . '</a>';
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more' );

To put the Read More on a separate line so it is not appended to the end of the snippet here is the css.

.read-more{
  	font-size:12px;
  	font-style: italic;
  	display:block;
  	clear:both;
  }