Getting rid of “read more” from excerpt

Hi there — been trying to get rid of the “Read More” link at the end of each post shown on the home page (and archive pages). I stumbled on an old post that gave me this code:

function custom_child_init() {
remove_filter('excerpt_more', 'ascend_excerpt_more');
remove_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', 'ascend_custom_excerpt_more' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'custom_child_init' );

I have put that into my child theme’s functions — which got rid of the link, but now there’s a […] in its place. it’d be nice to have the trailing text end in a “…” as it did before but without the brackets. Any ideas?

• This topic was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by larsemerson.

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