How to: Remove the [...] from the excerpt

How to: Remove the [...] from the excerpt

Did you ever wondered why the the_excerpt() function always display [...] at the end of the post excerpt? To be honest, I don’t find this very beautiful. So, what about remove it? Just read on.

To get rid of the [...] at the end of the post excerpt, simply paste the following function in the functions.php file from your theme:

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

And you're done! Goodbye [...]

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4 Responses

Lyrici

Apr 29 2012 00:34

If i paste the above code in the functions.php its not removing [...] excerpt, still i can see the excerpt on home page can you please help me on this