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Customize the Excerpt “More” Text

Replaces the default ‘[...]’ that WordPress appends to trimmed excerpts with your own text.

php

/**
 * Change More excerpt
 */
function custom_more_excerpt( $more ) {
    return '...';
}

add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'custom_more_excerpt' );

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