[plugin: feedwordpress]

For 2 days, I’ve experimented with different code edits with no success. Seems all instructions work for older versions of WP. I began using WP a week ago and got myself familiar with it and it’s pretty nice and easy to use.

What I’m trying to achieve using feedwordpress automated posts from RSS feeds.

On front page, I want to control the number of characters/words for excerpts.

For example:

at http://deafeed.com/category/news-announcements/

There is a post with title and it shows the full post from RSS souce (http://deafeed.com/what-the-fake-sign-language-interpreter-really-said/) … I want it to show as:

WHAT THE “FAKE SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER” REALLY SAID (title)
Well we can all agree on one thing, whatever it was Tamsanqua Jantije was signing during Mandela’s memorial service last week, it wasn’t the actual content of the word leaders’ speeches he stood beside…. (excerpt of post)

Then it shows the rest of the post. I put that below the rest of post so readers can read the full post at the source:

<div class="entry-content">Read more at:
<a href="<?php the_syndication_source_link(); ?>"><?php the_syndication_source(); ?></a>.
	</div>
<?php endif; ?>

I have tried many examples in documentation and the forum as well as feedwordpress author’s website (down right now so can’t copy/paste his examples)

The problem is that I add excerpt codes in content.php, it also affects the single.php as well. I successfully got the excerpt to work via content.php and yet it shows the excerpt on full post (single.php)

Using theme: Twenty fourteen

Please advise. I am comfortable with editing PHP files.