Remove ‘read more’ link when post is shorter than excerpt

Are you using the_excerpt() or $post->post_excerpt? Use $post->post_excerpt and count your words then if the limit exceeds show the read more otherwise don’t show.

Related Posts:

  1. Read more tag shows up on EVERY post
  2. “Read more” link doesn’t show up when the post length is under the excerpt length
  3. Custom excerpt showing first paragraph (with HTML formatting)
  4. Different ‘read more’ links
  5. Read more on the post page itself
  6. Excerpt using Read More Tag
  7. How to wrap “Read More” link in a DIV tag?
  8. Problem with viewing single page correctly. (taken half way down the page on click through)
  9. Append Second Link to Read More
  10. “Continue reading” not on some posts, full excerpts not shown
  11. the_excerpt() is not trimming at
  12. How to use limit post content on archive page in WordPress?
  13. Remove Default Read More Link in Manual Excerpt RSS Feed
  14. multiple excerpt length and styles
  15. how to use the_excerpt for two post queries?
  16. Remove the excerpt and “… Read More” from the featured content on the home page with child theme
  17. Is there a way to display the ‘Read more’ link if it’s within a range?
  18. Using wp_trim_excerpt to get the_excerpt() outside the loop
  19. apply_filters() and the_excerpt are giving unexpected results
  20. Compare the_excerpt() to the_content()
  21. How to remove “read more” link from custom post type excerpt
  22. Display Links in Excerpts?
  23. Modify youtube video size on one page and show another size on different page
  24. Issue with enabling formatting in excerpts in WordPress
  25. limit the words in the post content and add read more link
  26. Excerpt Word Count
  27. Limit the_excerpt in the first point (.) of the sentence
  28. How to show only manual / custom excerpts?
  29. Excerpts that don’t truncate words
  30. Spacing within the excerpt
  31. the_excerpt Read More Filter
  32. Regenerate auto excerpts after updating many posts
  33. Exclude filter on front page
  34. How to only show the first X words (from each post) on the home page?
  35. Remove whitespace before the_excerpt();
  36. How to display only the excerpt in the blog/posts page with Gutenberg?
  37. Bulk add tag (or any sort of label) to posts who have custom excerpt
  38. How to correctly limit the content and strip HTML?
  39. Writing a custom excerpt function
  40. How to get the excerpt of a page before more tag?
  41. Getting first 20 words without excerpt
  42. Change excerpt length of first post
  43. Display oEmbed in the_excerpt
  44. Auto Populate Excerpt Field
  45. Remove Text within Header tags in the Excerpt
  46. Line in excerpt and max 5 lines
  47. Show the excerpt in a loop
  48. How to move the the_excerpt’s read more link to another div
  49. Custom Excerpts Per Page
  50. Excerpts automatically remove paragraph space
  51. How to put “Read more” link in Custom Excerpt inside p tag?
  52. How to apply excerpt length only on front end?
  53. get_the_excerpt() issues – returns the excerpt twice or not at all?
  54. Bug in the_excerpt() function
  55. Excerpt content
  56. Show excerpts of posts on P2 Home page
  57. get_the_excerpt without images
  58. How to get only manual excerpts?
  59. How to get excerpt of the recent posts
  60. Limit the size of the post excerpt
  61. Excerpt Is Disappeared
  62. excerpt box not visible
  63. I can’t modify the ‘Continue reading…’ link of the_excerpt
  64. get video from content
  65. Show Excerpts In Twenty Eleven Theme
  66. How do you edit the html of teaser excerpts
  67. Show image in excerpt post. Image not displaying
  68. the_excerpt() and tag
  69. the_excerpt is not limiting my post page to 55 words?
  70. I want to show post excerpt and cap it at 20 words [duplicate]
  71. Use get_the_excerpt is returning nothing outside of loop
  72. How to edit a typo in excerpt?
  73. Creating excerpt with simple “Read more” link
  74. How to remove excerpt white spaces
  75. making the […] clickable
  76. Modify excerpt link
  77. Twenty Eleven: Home Page, View full post of most recent post & Summary of the rest
  78. Filter Post Title without affecting screen-reader-text
  79. Cannot figure out how to add a read more link to a manual excerpt. Please help
  80. Excerpts not showing
  81. Keep excerpt from stripping URLs and enable autoembed for youtube ONLY?
  82. Excerpt being limited too early
  83. Help needed using wp_trim_words
  84. NextGen Gallery not allowing me to display the_excerpt();?
  85. Read More in the actual excerpt
  86. get_the_excerpt adding unwanted links to output html
  87. Excerpt functions is removing the forward slash on the url
  88. the_excerpt() doesn’t return the Excerpt field content
  89. Define excerpt length by inserting read more tag
  90. 2 posts same excerpt?
  91. Edit the excerpt before it is shown
  92. Can’t change excerpt length and more tag
  93. Is there a html tag filter for the excerpt?
  94. Add rel=lightbox to custom string
  95. WordPress excerpt for specific posts in category
  96. Excerpt is only getting shown for first post
  97. Post content not showing
  98. Remove automatic excerpts only for single posts
  99. Setting post excerpt length in php wordpress code, Should will help to save DB size?
  100. Read more opens attachment