Display font awesome shortcode in post except

[cforge]

Is is possible to show a font awesome icon in post excerpts? I have a membership site where post excerpts are shown. Some posts are member only and I am trying to show something like this in the excerpt text:

I know excerpts are not supposed to have anything like this but for this one instance is it possible to do something like this?

[ruenel]

Hello There,

Thanks for posting in! Post excerpts do not display shortcodes. You may need to do a custom code to display a custom excerpt when the use is not logged in. Because what you are trying to accomplish requires a template customization, we would highly to suggest that you use a child theme. This allows you to make code changes that won’t be overwritten when an X update is released.

After the child theme is set up, please add the following code in your child theme’s functions.php file

function custom_excerpt($excerpt){
    if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
        $excerpt = '<i class="x-icon x-icon-lock" aria-hidden="true"></i>';
    }
  
    return $excerpt;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'custom_excerpt');

We would loved to know if this has work for you. Thank you.