I noticed an opening bracket missing in "Continue reading…]" on an excerpt. See http://goo.gl/CKiLg and search for "day of Continue reading…]". I wonder, is it some plugin or the theme itself?

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What do you have in the theme setting?
Have you tried disabling all the plugins?

It is just one missing '[' out of four on the home page.

The html in the excerpt looks like this (note two 'a' tags in the excerpt, one of them is unclosed):

<p>blah-bla-blah on the first day of <a [<a href="http://example.com/2011/08/02/post-slug/">Continue reading…</a>]</p>

The html in the underlying post looks like this (note an 'a' tags at the place where an excerpt ends):

<p>blah-bla-blah on the first day of <a title="some title" href="http://example.org/">The blah-bla-blah</a>.</p>

Is it conceivable that the theme tried to preserve the 'a' tag in the excerpt but something didn't work as it should?

Originally Posted by juggledad

What do you have in the theme setting?

I do remember the setting "preserve 'a' tags in the excerpts". I don't remember other settings; can answer later...

Originally Posted by juggledad

Have you tried disabling all the plugins?

Not yet; can try later...

I don't see the issue. when I search using the example, I get a not found. If I look at the categories, I see both brackets

Try to search http://goo.gl/CKiLg for "on the first day of".

Screen shot:

Ok, I see it on the excerpt for the post 'Breastfeeding Counseling and Supplies ...'
It looks like that is a link - send me (you can do this in a PM if you want) a copy of the post using the HTML editor and let me know what you have the 'excerpt' count set to.

Sent a PM. Thanks!

Try this, change the 'Custom Read more from

[<a href="%permalink%">Continue reading...</a>]

to

<a href="%permalink%">[Continue reading...]</a>

Thanks! that cured the problem.