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I have been triying to localize a wordpress site which uses Bones as the theme.

In the theme's search.php, there is a line that goes:

<?php the_excerpt('<span class="read-more">' . __('Read more &raquo;', 'bonestheme') . '</span>'); ?>

In the function reference it is said that this function does not take any parameters. So why does this theme send parameters?

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This is a bug in the theme. The real function does indeed not use the parameter:

/**
 * Display the post excerpt.
 *
 * @since 0.71
 * @uses apply_filters() Calls 'the_excerpt' hook on post excerpt.
 */
function the_excerpt() {
    echo apply_filters('the_excerpt', get_the_excerpt());
}

PHP will just ignore it, but the unnecessary gettext call should be avoided. Write a bug report.

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Thank you @toscho. Maybe you can also help me with my main problem – turzifer May 14 at 13:16
I wrote a bug report and here is the reply to it: italic_This is because Bones uses a filter on excerpts. If you take a look at library/bones.php line 50: add_filter('excerpt_more', 'bones_excerpt_more');_italic – turzifer May 21 at 6:59
@turzifer That filter will never get the extra parameter, because it is discarded by PHP. The explanation doesn’t make sense. – toscho♦ May 21 at 7:02
The conversation – turzifer May 28 at 14:00

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