We’ve even created a test blog post. In the title we put ‘aol test’, and the title shows correctly on the main page. In the body of the post, we put ‘This is a test, to see if aol is removed in excerpts. How about Paoli? Remove aol test. aol Removed altogether’.

The main blog page shows:
aol test
BY CURREY ADKINS SUPPORT IN UNCATEGORIZED
This is a test to see if is removed in excerpt. How about Pi? Remove test. Removed

We’re also using Wordfence on the site, v 6.3

The user that is posting is called ‘CURREY ADKINS’ so that shows under the blog title.

The first line in the post is actually an image, and the words ‘By Henry J. Paoli’.

So it’s text in the blog.

Update your theme and wordpress and then see if it’s something that’s already been fixed.

We’ll debug and test using the code displaying the excerpts. If/when we figure out what’s doing it, I’ll post here.

Thanks for your time.