BigBadCollab

I love Wordpress and everything that the tool lets you do. A friend/client hit us up today asking how he could get rid of the default “[...]” text at the end of the Wordpress the_excerpt tag. I figured this may be a pretty common question, so I decided to share the solution here. I know I am not the only one to figure this out, but here is what I did:

• Login to the Wordpress backend (with admin rights) and click on the arrow next to the appearance tab
• Click on the “editor” link
• In the right column find the Theme Functions (functions.php) file and click on it to edit
• Add in the following function right before the closing “?>” php tag. We utilized the add_filter tag to replace the “[...]” with “Read More »”. You’ll notice we also added in the permalink so you can click on the link to actually read more.
  function change_excerpt($excerpt)
{
return str_replace('[...]', '<br /><a href="'.get_permalink().'">Read More &raquo</a>', $excerpt);
}
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'change_excerpt');
• Finally, go do something nice for yourself because you have now globally changed the_excerpt tag for this template

Hope this helps someone.

Tags: add_filter, Development, PHP, the_excerpt, Wordpress, Wordpress Themes

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