Ever get tired of those nasty […] ellipses that appear beneath your blog excerpts? I do. In this tutorial, I am going to show you how to change WordPress’ default excerpt display without changing core WordPress files.
Open up functions.php and add this code to the very bottom of the file:
<?php function gpp_excerpt($text) { return str_replace('[...]', '<br /><a href="'.get_permalink().'">Read More →</a>', $text); } add_filter('the_excerpt', 'gpp_excerpt'); ?>The above code “filters” WordPress’ default the_excerpt function and replaces it with our own gpp_excerpt function. We have just written a very simple plugin for WordPress.
If, however, you are writing your own excerpts and want to add a Read More permalink, replace:
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>with this:
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