the_excerpt() and <— more --> tag

Question

On my archive page, the_excerpt() does not display content before the more tag, but a cut of the post's full content. I'm obliged to fulfill the "Excerpt" in the post editor which will override it. How to force the_excerpt() to show only the content before the more tag?

Answer 1

Why not just switch out the_excerpt for the_content in your theme? Or create a child theme and override the relevant files.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Answer 2

• Try Advanced Excepts plugin,it's working perfectly.

or add the following function to functions.php:

add_filter('the_excerpt','my_excerpt');
function my_excerpt(){
 global $post;
$link='<a class="more" href='.get_permalink($post->ID ).'>Read More...</a>';
$excerpt=get_the_excerpt($post->ID);
echo $excerpt.$link;
return true;
}

the previous function appends the perma link of the post to the excerpt,we used the filter the_excerpt so that when we use the_excerpts(); it results our customized excerpt.