How do I edit the_excerpt?

Look at the wp_trim_excerpt function in wp-includes/formatting.php.

Thanks I was able to clear that up perfectly! And just for future reference the wp_trim_excerpt function begins on line 772 in formatting.php in v. 2.1.3

would you mind noting the code you used within the wp_trim_excerpt function to make this work? particularly what to put in the array_push()

thanks!

I had to do the same thing this past week.
Here is the code that I used in
wp-includes/functions-formatting.php
in the wp_trim_excerpt() function:

$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
                if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
                        array_pop($words);
!                       /* array_push($words, '[...]'); */
!                       $morelink = '<a>ID) . '"
[...More...]</a>';
!                       array_push($words, $morelink);
                        $text = implode(' ', $words);
                }
        }

Hope that helps.
You can see it working on my Low Vision Guide website at:
https://www.lowvisionguide.org.

Shawn McMurdo

Hi Shawn,

I’m having a few problems implementing your code snippet. I can get the […More…] tag out but how do I add the href attribute to the tag?

When pasting your snippet I got a couple of errors around the line with

! $morelink = '<a>ID) . '"

Looks like there’s a few extra chars slipping in there!

So far I’ve got:

$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
			if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
				array_pop($words);
				/* array_push($words, '[...]'); */
                $morelink = '<a>'.'
					[...More...]</a>';
					array_push($words, $morelink);
					$text = implode(' ', $words);
				}

where do I go from here?

You could simply use this plugin to customize your excertpts… and no need for messing with the core files ??
https://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/

Cheers moshu!!

$morelink=sprintf("<a href=\"%s\"> [read more]</a>", get_permalink());

array_push($words, $morelink);

Would do the trick.