Title: Excerpt pulling wrong data.
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Excerpt pulling wrong data.

 *  [andrewfree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewfree/)
 * (@andrewfree)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-pulling-wrong-data/)
 * If I enter an excerpt at all it formats it but with the start of the post and
   not what I had entered explicitly for the excerpt. If I don’t enter an excerpt
   it displays one anyways and uses the entire post as the excerpt. I’ve tried countless
   things and read countless blog posts. I’m not really sure what I could of messed
   up. The site is at [http://machbytes.com/](http://machbytes.com/)
 * My goal is for it to display w/e I enter for the manual excerpt for each post.
 * My functions.php for the theme has
 *     ```
       // =========================
       // = Change excerpt lenght =
       // =========================
       add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');
       function my_excerpt_length($length) {
       return get_option('imbalance_excln'); }
   
       // =================================
       // = Change default excerpt symbol =
       // =================================
       function imbalance_excerpt($text) { return str_replace('[...]', '...', $text); } add_filter('the_excerpt', 'imbalance_excerpt');
       ```
   
 * and the index.php has
 *     ```
       <?php
          if (function_exists('has_excerpt') && has_excerpt()) the_excerpt();
          else the_content('Read on...');
       //<?php the_excerpt();
       ?>
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [andrewfree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrewfree/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-pulling-wrong-data/)
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