Title: Excerpt
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Excerpt

 *  [laling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laling/)
 * (@laling)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-44/)
 * I am trying to add in a “Read More…” link on an excerpt and also limit the length
   of the excerpt in my functions file to minimize code in my template. For some
   reason, it’s not limiting the length or adding the “Read More…” link. Am I doing
   something wrong that I’m not catching?
 * This is the code block that I got in my functions.php file.
 *     ```
       /* =================================================================
       Excerpt stuff
       ================================================================= */
       function junavalove_excerpt_length() {
           return 20;
       }
       add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'junavalove_excerpt_length' );
   
       function junavalove_excerpt_more() {
       	return sprintf( '<a href="%1$s">%2$s</a>', get_permalink( get_the_ID() ), __( 'Read More...') );
       }
       add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'junavalove_excerpt_more' );
       ```
   
 * This is what I got on my index.php template.
 *     ```
       if ( has_excerpt() ) {
       	the_excerpt();
       } else {
       	the_content('Read more...');
       ```
   

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-44/#post-7102970)
 * this does not get applied in case you are writing your excerpts by hand – only
   for automatically generated ones.
 *  Thread Starter [laling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laling/)
 * (@laling)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-44/#post-7102973)
 * Is there a way to apply them to manual excerpts?
 * I’d like to make use of the excerpts feature in a theme that I’m scrapping up.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-44/#post-7102973)
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