Title: Remove “Read more” from excerpt when using shortcode
Last modified: July 3, 2023

---

# Remove “Read more” from excerpt when using shortcode

 *  Resolved [Fionder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fionder/)
 * (@fionder)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-read-more-from-excerpt-when-using-shortcode/)
 * Hi
   I am using the Featured Image Pro shortcode to create a page that shows a 
   featured image and excerpt for each post in the category. The excerpt will always
   be short enough to fit into the excerpt height I have set, so I would like to
   remove the “Read more >>” link underneath. Is this possible please?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fremove-read-more-from-excerpt-when-using-shortcode%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

 *  Plugin Author [A. Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nomadcoder/)
 * (@nomadcoder)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-read-more-from-excerpt-when-using-shortcode/#post-16866943)
 * Let me look into it!
 *  Thread Starter [Fionder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fionder/)
 * (@fionder)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-read-more-from-excerpt-when-using-shortcode/#post-16867914)
 * Thank you…
 *  Plugin Author [A. Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nomadcoder/)
 * (@nomadcoder)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-read-more-from-excerpt-when-using-shortcode/#post-16869692)
 * The ‘read the rest’ link is meant to link to the post, not when there is more
   excerpt…The code is a bit wonky (sorry)!
 * To remove it, you can use css:
 * .proto_masonry_excerpt .more-link { display:none;}
 * I will look into adding an option in the future!
 *  Thread Starter [Fionder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fionder/)
 * (@fionder)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-read-more-from-excerpt-when-using-shortcode/#post-16875612)
 * Thanks for your reply. I thought about trying to use CSS but couldn’t see a class
   for the Read More link. I have just tried adding the CSS you suggest but unfortunately
   it hasn’t worked 🙁
 * Do you have any other suggestions please?
 *  Plugin Author [A. Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nomadcoder/)
 * (@nomadcoder)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-read-more-from-excerpt-when-using-shortcode/#post-16876202)
 * Are you using any kind of excerpt plugin? I am not sure that is coming from our
   plugin.
 * As long as you don’t have links in your excerpts, this should work. Warning that
   this will hide all links in the excerpt.
 * .proto_masonry_excerpt a { display:none;}
 *  Thread Starter [Fionder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fionder/)
 * (@fionder)
 * [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-read-more-from-excerpt-when-using-shortcode/#post-16884068)
 * Thanks for this. On this particular page I don’t want any links in the excerpts
   but I do want them on another page, so I have added the page id class to the 
   CSS and it is working perfectly. Thank you so much!

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

The topic ‘Remove “Read more” from excerpt when using shortcode’ is closed to new
replies.

 * ![](https://ps.w.org/featured-image-pro/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1552304)
 * [Featured Image Pro Post Grid](https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-pro/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/featured-image-pro/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image-pro/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image-pro/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image-pro/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/featured-image-pro/reviews/)

## Tags

 * [link](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/link/)
 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)

 * 6 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Fionder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fionder/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-read-more-from-excerpt-when-using-shortcode/#post-16884068)
 * Status: resolved