If you want to remove white space after you get the excerpt, then you can do as below. First get the excerpt as $excerpt = mb_substr(get_the_excerpt(), 0, 236); Then do a string replace for space as echo str_replace(‘ ‘, ”, $excerpt);
you made it complex a bit i used this simple lines of code; add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, function ($length) { global $post; if ($post->post_type == ‘portfolio’){ return 13; } return 50; }, 100);
Your problem has nothing to do with the_excerpt(). the_excerpt() template tag does not change its behavior by itself or change its behavior according to location. The only time the_excerpt() changes its behavior is when you manually filter the output through a custom function. I most probably think that all of your misery is caused by … Read more
To show your custom excerpt more text when a post has a manual excerpt, you can filter the excerpt using the get_the_excerpt filter, use has_excerpt() (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/has_excerpt) to determine whether the post has a manual excerpt or not, and append the output of your already-existing custom excerpt more function to the excerpt if not. Here’s some … Read more
Though it’s a bit of unnecessary things to answer your actual question, but for the fact, I used the following code into many of my News Portal WordPress sites, where I had the facilities to Control the excerpt length, and I changed the excerpt More link to my choice. All I did was using my … Read more
Thanks for the response David. I found the solution. I added the following code in functions.php add_filter(‘get_the_excerpt’, ‘process_excerpt’); function process_excerpt($param) { global $post; if(in_category(‘MY-CATEGORY-SLUG’,$post)) return ‘adding some data’.$param; else return $param; } This fixed my issue.
Hi I’m not 100% sure I understood your question correctly but give this a try if you want to replace that excerpt […] with anything you want. You can use this hook to manipulate that. Where “More” is after the   you can use what ever you’d like or even use CSS to change it’s … Read more
Shortcode’s callback should return a string, not echo it. function getMyShortCode_func() { return ‘<div class=”abc”>Hello world.</div>’; }
Use the excerpt_more filter: function wpse_180792_excerpt_more() { return ”; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_more’, ‘wpse_180792_excerpt_more’ );
Atlast i found the solution, it was very silly mistake. It got nothing to do with plugin or theme or any code. It was one of the WordPress settings which i didn’t realize. Following pic shows the option to switch between excerpt view and list view of posts in wordpress. I by mistake selected excerpt … Read more