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Edit the WordPress excerpt to remove everything after the first sentence.
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wordpress-excerpt-function.php
/**
* Find the first period in the excerpt and remove everything after it.
*
*
* @param string $excerpt The post excerpt.
*/
function end_with_sentence($excerpt) {
return substr($excerpt,0,strpos($excerpt,'.')+1);
}
add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'end_with_sentence');
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