Title: Adjusting Excerpt Length
Last modified: January 25, 2017

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# Adjusting Excerpt Length

 *  Resolved [lsjohnson2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lsjohnson2/)
 * (@lsjohnson2)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adjusting-excerpt-length/)
 * I seem to be unable to adjust the excerpt length. It is stuck at 20 words. I 
   have adjusted the timeline-express settings page to reflect a much higher character
   count and unchecked “random length”.
 * I have even implemented the following code to my functions.php to try to overide
   WordPress’s default excerpt length:
 * function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
    return 100; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’,‘
   custom_excerpt_length’, 999 );
 * Nothing seems to work, what am I missing? How do I increase the excerpt length
   to more than 20 words?
 * Thanks,
    Logan

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Code Parrots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeparrots/)
 * (@codeparrots)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adjusting-excerpt-length/#post-8720356)
 * Hi there [@lsjohnson2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lsjohnson2/),
 * Generally when you are unable to alter the excerpt it means that your theme is
   already defining a custom excerpt length which is being inherited by Timeline
   Express.
 * Can you try and locate inside of your themes functions.php file, or in your themes
   options/settings page if there is a location to alter the themes excerpt length.
 * If it is in functions.php you’ll see another function already defined and hooking
   into ‘excerpt_length’.
 *  [Laura_Carr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/laura_carr/)
 * (@laura_carr)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adjusting-excerpt-length/#post-8869640)
 * Hi Code Parrots,
 * I’m also having this issue – and can’t see a reference to excerpt length in the
   templates functions file. I actually don’t really want the text to be limited
   at all, is there anything I can do in the template files to just output the text,
   rather than an exceprt of it? Anyway to make a change that will not be effected
   by updates?
 * Thanks
    Laura
 *  Plugin Contributor [Code Parrots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeparrots/)
 * (@codeparrots)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adjusting-excerpt-length/#post-8872115)
 * Hi Laura,
 * This issue seems to be something to do with the theme itself.
 * The theme actually has an excerpt length set, which is over riding the timeline
   express excerpt setting.
 * You’ll have to adjust your theme to also adjust the excerpt of the timeline announcements,
   or you can customize your theme so that the timeline has a different excerpt 
   than the standard posts.
 * Thanks!
 *  [wendy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aprilfranco/)
 * (@aprilfranco)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adjusting-excerpt-length/#post-9281988)
 * There’s a super-easy workaround to this. I installed the ‘Timeline Express – 
   HTML Excerpts’ plug-in and used the alternative text box which has no limit.
 * It’s just a pity that I can’t use more than one timeline without going pro (I’d
   hoped to use a super-short version without the ‘red more’ option on a home page,
   then the extended version on a separate page).
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [wendy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aprilfranco/).

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 * [excerpt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/excerpt/)
 * [length](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/length/)

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 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [wendy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aprilfranco/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adjusting-excerpt-length/#post-9281988)
 * Status: resolved