Title: Replace WordPress Excerpt with Meta Description
Last modified: December 16, 2022

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# Replace WordPress Excerpt with Meta Description

 *  Resolved [eddie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ediet/)
 * (@ediet)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-wordpress-excerpt-with-meta-description/)
 * Hello,
   I would like to Replace WordPress Excerpt with Meta Description Rank Math.
   I’ve added the code to functions.php:
 * function replace_post_excerpt_filter($output)
   {$output=get_post_meta(get_the_ID(),'
   rank_math_description', true);return $output;}add_filter( 'get_the_excerpt', '
   replace_post_excerpt_filter' );
 * But in the frontend only some posts have excerpt displayed. I understand it’s
   only the ones that were done manually.
 * Two questions have arisen:
   1) How to make both descriptions appear in excerpt:
   manually made and automatically generated by Rank Math?2) How to add ‘…’ to the
   end?
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by [eddie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ediet/).
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by [eddie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ediet/).

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 *  Plugin Support [Rank Math Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rankmathteam/)
 * (@rankmathteam)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-wordpress-excerpt-with-meta-description/#post-16298202)
 * Hello [@ediet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ediet/),
 * Thank you for contacting support.
 * You can change the function to check if the description exists otherwise fallback
   to the settings from our plugin for the posts like so:
   [https://pastebin.com/Bw6fKPyN](https://pastebin.com/Bw6fKPyN)
 * This also adds the 3 dots after the output for each one.
 * Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by [Rank Math Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rankmathteam/).
      Reason: Fixed the code

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-wordpress-excerpt-with-meta-description/#post-16298202)
 * Status: resolved