How to Add Ellipsis AFTER Excerpt, But BEFORE "Read More"

  • Random Dev

    (@chumpchangewd)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hi there. It looks grammatically crazy to me to have excerpts truncate abruptly in the middle of sentences with no ellipsis, etc., to signify continuation, so I’d like to add one, if you could help me, please.

    Now, my testimonials look like:

    I want my life to
    – Author, Title

    I want it to look like:

    I want my life to… [Read More]
    – Author, Title

    To get at least a variation of that, I tried the code mentioned here, so that my shortcode (for a full “list” page of testimonials) looked like:

    [ic_do_testimonials num_words='45' display='list' quantity='-1' read_more="[...]" more_tag='Read More' link_testimonials='yes']

    However, this removes completely the “Read More” tag itself and replaces it with […], and nothing is clickable, like this:

    I want my life to […]
    – Author, Title

    I also tried editing the template loop file with:

    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>...

    …but that caused the ellipsis to be in a completely separate paragraph (since I know nothing of PHP, and researching for almost an hour produced no wins).

    Can you please tell me how I can format a testimonial excerpt the way that I want?

    Advance thanks. 🙂

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/ivycat-ajax-testimonials/

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