I was super-frustrated by this issue (and disappointed the OP didn’t let us in on how he fixed it, since I can see on his site that he did… Maybe he just changed themes?).
FWIW, the ellipses were at one time displaying correctly. But, some upgrade must have broken it.
My excerpts were displayed like this:
the equipment involved [&hellip
and the source rendered like this:
the equipment involved [&hellip</p>
while I was expecting them to be displayed like this:
the equipment involved ...
I tweaked and played with formatting.php and default-filters.php to no avail.
Finally, I figured it had to be theme-related. Maybe, maybe not, but that is where I was able to ultimately fix it.
I found this function in my theme’s functions.php:
// Remove [...]
function trim_excerpt($text) {
return rtrim($text,'[...]');
}
I updated it to:
// Remove [...]
function trim_excerpt($text) {
return $text;
}
I didn’t really want the brackets around the ellipsis, so my final version looks like this:
// Remove [...]
function trim_excerpt($text) {
$text = str_replace('[', '', $text);
$text = str_replace(']', '', $text);
return $text;
}
My excerpts now correctly display the ellipsis, at least how I wanted to display them.
I hope this helps anyone running into this problem.