[Steven Zahm]

@ Ramona

Using CSS is probably the quickest/easiest way to remove these items. Add the following to the theme’s custom CSS area, generally found in the theme Customizer.

#cn-excerpt-plus .cn-sprite,
#cn-excerpt-plus .cn-show-more {
    display: none !important;
}

keep in mind that the displayed text is only an excerpt of the bio field. If the content of the bio field exceeds the excerpt size, it will be truncated and there will be no visible way for the user to display the rest of the content.

Hope this helps!