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1. zeaks
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Just wondering if there is a way to control the excerpt length from the loop instead of the functions for a twenty ten child theme.

   I have several layouts for a theme,which are changed by using a different loop file, and some of them would use a different excerpt length.

2. Frumph
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Couldn't you do conditional's based on the layout setting to assign the excerpt length?

   if ($layout == '2col-left') $excerpt_length = 100; sort of thing?

   in the child themes functions.php, wrote this on the fly, not tested; but a maybe a good idea to steer towards.

   add_action('after_setup_theme', 'mychildtheme_after_theme_setup');
   
   mychildtheme_after_theme_setup() {
       remove_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'twentyten_excerpt_length' );
       add_filter('excerpt_length', 'mychildtheme_excerpt_length');
   }
   
   function mychildtheme_excerpt_length($length) {
      $options = get_option('myprivateoptions');
      if ($options['layout'] == 'somestyle') $length = 100;
      return $length;
   }

3. zeaks
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks, I'll give this a try

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