Title: Get rid of […]
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# Get rid of […]

 *  [gate303](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gate303/)
 * (@gate303)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-rid-of/)
 * Hi!
 * I have tried to get rid of the […] which is placed after every excerpt. I managed
   to modify the one that is placed after the automatically generated ones, but 
   it still was there on the one with manual excerpt.
 * How can I fix this?
 * I also wonder how a “read more”-link could be added just when the post is longer
   than the excerpt.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-rid-of/#post-295772)
 * Well, the [the_excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt)
   and the “more” link are two different things.
 *  Thread Starter [gate303](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gate303/)
 * (@gate303)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-rid-of/#post-295773)
 * Yes, I am aware of that… =)
    But that wasn’t my question.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-rid-of/#post-295774)
 * You may want to try this plugin:
    [http://guff.szub.net/the-excerpt-reloaded](http://guff.szub.net/the-excerpt-reloaded)
 *  [neurodude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neurodude/)
 * (@neurodude)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-rid-of/#post-296514)
 * In case anyone is searching for how to get rid of this in the RSS results, find
   functions-formatting.php and change line # 732. That’s where I did it…seems to
   work OK. Please let me know if I have screwed something else up. LOL
 * I just took out the [ and the ] but I imagine you could put anything there you
   wish.
 * You can see it in action at [http://www.thestopsmokingguide.com](http://www.thestopsmokingguide.com)
   in the right hand navigation column.
 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-rid-of/#post-296515)
 * A somewhat better approach (which doesn’t involve modifying core files)… Put 
   this in your theme’s functions.php or in a plugin.
 * `function modify_excerpt($excerpt)
    { return str_replace('[...]','whatever',$
   excerpt); } add_filter('get_the_excerpt','modify_excerpt');
 * If you only want it to apply to the feeds and not elsewhere, change the `get_the_excerpt`
   above to `the_excerpt_rss`.

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-rid-of/#post-296515)
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