My blog post excerpts in the homepage has no triple dot

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#1

Hi to all,

I would like to ask how to make my excerpts “…” (triple dot) appear on my homepage. I noticed that there are no “read more” or “continue reading” so maybe I can get a triple dot instead. Thanks.

#2

Hi there,

Thanks for writing in.

It depends, if the excerpt is generated from custom excerpt then it requires different approach than excerpt generated by Wordpress. Would you mind providing your site’s URL that has this? It could be specific to stack too.

For the meantime, please add this code to your child theme’s functions.php

function excerpt_more_dotted( $more ) {
	return '...';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'excerpt_more_dotted');

Thanks!

#3

Hi @Rad,

Thank you for your reply. You may visit my site at learninghomeschool.com. It is a new site with only 2 blog at the moment. You will notice there that the excerpts are ending at period [.] I’m afraid visitors/readers will think that the excerpt is the whole content already since there is no “continue reading” or “…”.

#4

Hi There,

Could you please try removing the custom excerpt of your posts?

If it still doesn’t work, please provide us with login credentials(by clicking on the Secure Note button at the bottom) so we can take a closer look? To do this, you can make a post with the following info:

  • Link login to your site
  • WordPress Admin username / password

Thanks.

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#5

Hi @thai,

It works! What a relief! Thank you so much! Maybe I accidentally or unknowingly put a custom excerpts in a free theme before I bought and change to X theme. Again, thank you so much.

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