Removing “Read More” and adjusting Excerpt Length

Hi @palmdream, You can use this plugin for the excerpt issue. For the Read more issue, You can try adding the following code to your Admin Panel > Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS field:

p.more-link {
  display: none !important;
}

Let me know the outcome ??

To truly remove the read more buttons add this to your child theme to overwrite the one in the main theme real-estate-lite-child/sections/service.php

<?php
$title = esc_html( get_theme_mod('service_title'));
$subtitle = esc_html( get_theme_mod('service_sub_title'));
$first = esc_html( get_theme_mod('first_service'));
$second = esc_html( get_theme_mod('second_service'));
$third = esc_html( get_theme_mod('third_service'));
?>
<div class="section service grey">
        <div class="grid">
        <h2 class="section-title"> <?php echo esc_html( $title) ; ?></h2>
        <?php if(!empty($subtitle)) : ?>
        <h5 class="section-sub-title"> <?php echo esc_html( $subtitle) ; ?></h5>
        <?php endif; ?>
                <?php 
       
                // The Query
                $args = array(
                        'post_type' => 'page',
                        'post__in' => array($first,$second,$third),
                        'orderby' => 'post__in',
                        );
                $feature = new WP_Query( $args );
        // The Loop
                if ( $feature->have_posts() ) {
                       
                                while ( $feature->have_posts() ) {
                                        ?><div class="col-4-12"><?php
                                        $feature->the_post();
        if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) { ?>
                <div class='post-thumb'>
                                <a href="<?php the_permalink();?>" >
                                <?php the_post_thumbnail('real_estate_lite_page_thumb'); ?>
                                </a>
                </div>
                <?php } ?>
                <?php the_title('<h2 class="entry-title">', '</h2>'); ?>
                <?php  the_excerpt(); ?>
                               
 
          <?php 
          echo "</div>";
          } } else { ?>
        <p><?php echo esc_attr( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?></p>
        <?php } 
               
                /* Restore original Post Data */
                wp_reset_postdata();
                ?>
               
        </div>
        </div>

An easier way but a bit less clean is to hide the links in the service section like so

.service .read_more {
  display: none;
}

To change the excerpt length add this to your child themes functions file and change the number 20 to the length you would like

function wp11539068_excerpt_length( $length ) {
	return 20;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'wp11539068_excerpt_length', 999 );

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/excerpt_length

Hey,

Both of your solutions have worked

thanks so much!

Hiya @palmdream,

Glad I could help ??

@palmdream, can you please mark this as Resolved so the rest of us know it’s been fixed? Thanks.