Title: Empty String in excerpts
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Empty String in excerpts

 *  Resolved [fredbsc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredbsc/)
 * (@fredbsc)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-string-in-excerpts/)
 * In the excerpts of my blog posts everything between [gloss.. ] and [/gloss..]
   is empty. Any ideas? Need more info?
 * The only thing i added in my childs stylecss:
    .content .wp-glossary { display:
   inline; padding: 1px 5px; color: #666666; background-color: #EFE8E1; -moz-border-
   radius: 3px; border-radius: 3px; }
 * Great Plug-In – thanx,
    Manfred
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-glossary/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-glossary/)

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 *  Thread Starter [fredbsc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredbsc/)
 * (@fredbsc)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-string-in-excerpts/#post-5473520)
 * Solved. In my functions.php->better_trim_excerpts() I added one line:
 *     ```
       $text = get_the_content('');
       --->>> $text = preg_replace("~(?:\[/?)[^/\]]+/?\]~s", '', $text);
       $text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
       ```
   
 * Seems to work for me.
    Manfred

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 * Last reply from: [fredbsc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredbsc/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-string-in-excerpts/#post-5473520)
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