How to display links in a WordPress excerpt?

Allowing link in a excerpt very common issue for WordPress users.

You can display excerpt link by adding this script to your theme “functions.php” file.

remove_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt' );
function new_trim_excerpt($text) {
 global $post;
 if ( '' == $text ) {
 $text = get_the_content('');
 $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
 $text = str_replace('\]\]\>', ']]>', $text);
 $text = preg_replace('@<script[^>]*?>.*?</script>@si', '', $text);
 $text = strip_tags($text, '<a>');
 $excerpt_length = 50;
 $words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
 if (count($words)> $excerpt_length) {
 array_pop($words);
 array_push($words, '...');
 $text = implode(' ', $words);
 }
 }
 return $text;
}
remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'new_trim_excerpt');

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