[Resolved] Excerpt 0 in archives for posts that have a Read More tag in the Post Editor

[Alexandra]

Hey guys,

I have a quick question, please.
I have set the Excerpt word count to 0 in the Customizer, but an excerpt is still showing on archive pages.
Sample archive page
I have figured out that this only happens with older posts that were created with the Classic Editor, where I was manually inserting a Read More tag.
How can I have no excerpt for those posts in archives without having to manually edit each of those posts to remove the Read More tags?
Thank you so much!

[David]

Hi there,

yes when using the More Tag it overrides the auto excerpt, try adding this PHP snippet to stop that from happening:

add_filter( 'generate_more_tag', '__return_empty_string' );

[Alexandra]

Hi, David!
A big, big thank you for this! 🙂
You have helped me save hours of work!

[David]

Glad to be of help 🙂

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