Customize the WordPress Excerpt

Customize the WordPress Excerpt — a practical guide to Customize the WordPress Excerpt themes tutorial with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

Modify the default excerpt by replacing the “Read More” text with a custom ellipsis using the excerpt_more filter.

function qrs_excerpt_more($more) {
  global $post;
  remove_filter('excerpt_more', 'qrs_excerpt_more'); 
  return '...';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more','qrs_excerpt_more',11);