Title: function “get_the_excerpt” breaking site
Last modified: June 4, 2019

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# function “get_the_excerpt” breaking site

 *  [bandelier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bandelier/)
 * (@bandelier)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/function-get_the_excerpt-breaking-site/)
 * When using the Events Calendar plugin and an excerpt is not added to an individual
   post, this function is breaking whenever there are double-quotation marks in 
   the post’s main body text. It causes the “description” meta tag to break, and
   then shows the broken tag at the top of any post with this issue.
    -  This topic was modified 7 years ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ffunction-get_the_excerpt-breaking-site%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/function-get_the_excerpt-breaking-site/#post-11606037)
 * This is either the theme or the plugin and not the excerpt, because output is
   supposed to be escaped so that quotes don’t affect it.
    If the plugin is creating
   the excerpt or outputting the content, ask in the plugin support forum. Otherwise,
   it’s the theme, and you would ask in the theme’s support forum.
 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/function-get_the_excerpt-breaking-site/#post-11608807)
 * This person also has it.
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-post-more-text-created/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-post-more-text-created/)
   Perhaps there is something in common?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * Last activity: [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/function-get_the_excerpt-breaking-site/#post-11608807)
 * Status: not resolved

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