post excerpt read more link

[p297]

Hi,

I'm trying to edit the read more code for a post excerpt in my archives. Currently this is what's visible on the post '... [Read more...]' with the '[Read more...]' a hyperlink (see included URL). I'm trying to remove the ellipsis - ... - that appears before the read more link so that it just says '[Read more...]'

I've tried adding 6 different variations of code that I've found on various help docs and forums into the functions.php file but none have worked, 1 broke the code the other 5 caused no change.

1. No change

 /**
     * Override the default string for automatic excerpts
     * 
     * @param type $more
     * @return string
    */
    function custom_excerpt_more($more) {
        return '';// return empty string
    }
    add_filter('excerpt_more', 'custom_excerpt_more');

2. No change

// Add Read More Link to Excerpts
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'get_read_more_link');
add_filter( 'the_content_more_link', 'get_read_more_link' );
function get_read_more_link() {
return '...&nbsp;<a href="' . get_permalink() . '">[Read&nbsp;More]</a>';
}

3. No change

function replace_excerpt($content) {
       return str_replace('[...]',
               '&lt;div class="more-link"&gt;<a href="'. get_permalink() .'">Continue Reading</a>&lt;/div&gt;',
               $content
       );
}
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'replace_excerpt');

4. Broke the code - this code is the same in 3. with an addition to it.

function replace_excerpt($content) {
       return str_replace('[...]',
               '&lt;div class="more-link"&gt;<a href="'. get_permalink() .'">Continue Reading</a>&lt;/div&gt;',
               $content
       );
}
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'replace_excerpt');

&lt;?php function replace_excerpt($content) {
return str_replace('[&hellip;]', '... ', $content );
}?&gt;

5. No change

// Changing excerpt more
function new_excerpt_more($more) {
  global $post;
  remove_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more'); 
  return ' <a>ID) . '"&gt;' . 'read more' . '</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more','new_excerpt_more');

add_filter('excerpt_more','__return_false');

6. No change

function trim_excerpt($text) {
  return rtrim($text,'[...]');
}
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'trim_excerpt');

I've also looked in the archive.php, front-page.php, page_archive.php, single.php, and even the styles.css files to try and find where I can customize the read more in the code to remove the ellipsis but haven't found it in any of them.

Please help!

https://www.mexicaliblues.com/ourstories/2017/08/

[Victor Font]

You are using a very old XHTML theme from http://www.ebusinesscoach.com/. This is a community marketplace theme, not a Studio Press theme. Chances are good that the read more was already modified by the theme developer which is why the snippets aren't working. The theme is not available in the download archives and without looking through the code, as community volunteers, I don't think we can help you. You can either try contacting the developer for assistance or hiring someone to look through your code.

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[Susan]

I'm closing this thread, as it's a duplicate of this one:

Remove ellipsis on read more

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