getExcerpt: Make ellipsis appear only if character limit is reached

You can check to see if the length of the excerpt is longer than the max count.

if(strlen($excerpt) > $count){

 $excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, $count) . '…';

}

… is the correct ellipsis character to use.

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