custom_excerpt_length not working

Hi vishypat,

yes – there is already an function for this.

Btw. there is an option to set the custom excerpt length, please navigate to “Appearance => Customize => General Options” in your WordPress dashboard and just set the excerpt length there – that’s it.

For the custom read more link, please add this function to the functions.php of your child theme:

if (!function_exists('custom_excerpt')) {
	function custom_excerpt($text = '') {
		$raw_excerpt = $text;
		if ('' == $text) {
			global $post;
			$options = get_option('mh_options');
			$custom_length = empty($options['excerpt_length']) ? '35' : $options['excerpt_length'];
			$text = get_the_content('');
			$text = do_shortcode($text);
			$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
			$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
			$excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', $custom_length);
			$excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ...');
			$text = wp_trim_words($text, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more);
		}
		return apply_filters('wp_trim_excerpt', $text, $raw_excerpt);
	}
	remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
	add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'custom_excerpt');
}

And then just modify:

$excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ...');

Regards
Michael

Ok – looks like we posted at the same time… 🙂

As I said, you can use the above function to solve your issue.

Regards
Michael