How to display post content instead of excerpt

Question

I am using a plugin, and to get around something I need to add some text to the excerpt field on my posts, but I don't want to display the excerpt field data on the front end, but rather the post content.

Is there a way to stop wp from automatically showing the contents of the excerpt field? css won't work, as I want to display the post content like it would if the excerpt field were empty.

Answer 1

If you want to always return post content when trying to get post excerpt, you can use get_the_excerpt filter like this.

add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'wp256_use_content_as_excerpt', 10, 2 );
function wp256_use_content_as_excerpt( $excerpt, $post ) {
    return wp_strip_all_tags( $post->post_content );
}