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  • Anonymous
    (Private)  November 19, 2015 at 2:19 pm #30191

    How can I set the limit of the excerpt ?

    Anonymous
    (Private)  November 19, 2015 at 2:38 pm #30193

    I thought this might work but it doesn’t:

    <p><?php substr( the_excerpt(), 0, 125); ?><p>

    Ross Moderator
    (Private)  November 19, 2015 at 5:29 pm #30212

    Please take a look at the WordPress codex entry for this function and correct usage:

    https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt#Control_Excerpt_Length_using_Filters

    I can already see the bit of code you want is there:

    function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
    return 20;
    }
    add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘custom_excerpt_length’, 999 );

    In addition, I believe the_excerpt() echos the output immediately- so substr won’t work as its not placed inside a variable.

    Thanks

    Anonymous
    (Private)  November 19, 2015 at 6:54 pm #30216

    That worked!

    Thank you! 🙂

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