wp-includes/post-template.php:390Displays the post excerpt.
One hook fires while the_excerpt() runs, in this order:
function the_excerpt() { /** * Filters the displayed post excerpt. * * @since 0.71 * * @see get_the_excerpt() * * @param string $post_excerpt The post excerpt. */ echo apply_filters( 'the_excerpt', get_the_excerpt() );}Introduced in 0.71. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
Signature, return type and hooks compared across 5 parsed releases.
src/wp-includes/post-template.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.