Title: Decrease excerpt size
Last modified: January 25, 2018

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# Decrease excerpt size

 *  Resolved [mygeekinc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mygeekinc/)
 * (@mygeekinc)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-excerpt-size/)
 * Is there a way to decrease the number of lines or characters shown in the excerpt
   when the shortcode is placed on a page?

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 *  Plugin Author [MortenPeterAndersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mortenpeterandersen/)
 * (@mortenpeterandersen)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-excerpt-size/#post-9904981)
 * Hi
    It’s your theme that control the length of the excerpt But there is a plugin
   [https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/custom-excerpt-length/](https://da.wordpress.org/plugins/custom-excerpt-length/)…
   havn’t tried it …. but I think you can use it.
 * Maybe I should code the solution in Simple News … for a new release 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [MortenPeterAndersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mortenpeterandersen/)
 * (@mortenpeterandersen)
 * [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-excerpt-size/#post-9993730)
 * I consider it as solved 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [MortenPeterAndersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mortenpeterandersen/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-excerpt-size/#post-9993730)
 * Status: resolved