Title: remove CTA from excerpt
Last modified: January 19, 2022

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# remove CTA from excerpt

 *  Resolved [joeco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeco/)
 * (@joeco)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-cta-from-excerpt/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m using RRSSB with the CTA: Share: It works fine on single posts and pages.
   The excerpt options are not selected. The archive pages still shows the CTA (
   without the buttons). Please look at the page linked here.
 * How can I remove the CTA from the excerpts?
 * Thank you!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fremove-cta-from-excerpt%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [JS Morisset](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsmoriss/)
 * (@jsmoriss)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-cta-from-excerpt/#post-15269761)
 * The WPSSO RRSSB plugin adds the CTA text above the share buttons. Looking at 
   the HTML source of your webpage, it looks like the full content was used (by 
   your theme or a plugin) to create those excerpts, and the HTML of the content
   simply stripped-out. The results of doing it this way, instead of using the WordPress
   [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_excerpt/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_excerpt/)
   function (for example), can have unpredictable results. It would be best if that
   excerpt was constructed using standard WordPress functions to have more a predictable
   output (based on the WordPress created excerpt instead of the full content). 
   Assuming the theme or plugin doing this first checks for an existing excerpt 
   text before creating one, you could try providing an excerpt text when editing
   that post.
 * js.
 *  Thread Starter [joeco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeco/)
 * (@joeco)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-cta-from-excerpt/#post-15270208)
 * Hi JS,
 * Thanks for the reply. I think that is exactly what’s going on.
 * I need a function that will strip the CTA from the post list HTML content using
   the CSS class .bio-post-preview–content-body Any ideas?
 * Cheers!
 *  Plugin Author [JS Morisset](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsmoriss/)
 * (@jsmoriss)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-cta-from-excerpt/#post-15270267)
 * Since all HTML, including any div containers you could use to hide that text,
   are stripped from the full content, no, there is no way. I would suggest you 
   contact the theme/plugin author responsible for creating that truncated content
   and ask them to use proper WordPress functions to display a proper excerpt.
 * js.
 *  Thread Starter [joeco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeco/)
 * (@joeco)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-cta-from-excerpt/#post-15270578)
 * Thanks JS. I will do exactly what you suggest.
 * I appreciate your advice and attention!
    -  This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by [joeco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeco/).
      Reason: spelling error
 *  Thread Starter [joeco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joeco/)
 * (@joeco)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-cta-from-excerpt/#post-15273948)
 * following up — I removed “Share: ” from the CTA field and then added a little
   CSS to put it back in and move it to place:
 *     ```
       .rrssb-buttons:before {
           content: 'Share:';
           position: relative;
           left: -50px;
           top: 30px;
       }
       ```
   
 * Thanks again!

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