and using the excerpt as counting words pushes other elements out of the way
With a proper CSS setup, this will not occur.
Unfortunately, we are using a template that will automatically change the positioning of elements as you re-size down, to accommodate for the various screens that will a user may be viewing with. Whether you’re on a 1080 screen or looking at it through your mobile device (through css detecting screen size and replacing elements).
The word count isn’t working for this layout, but I found that limiting to character count works fine.
Hire a CSS person, your statement is not correct.
Thanks for the non-help. I just need a code to count characters, not snide remarks alright?
Nice link. I don’t see where it covers how to modify the get_the_excerpt() function.
I was able to get this much of a function coded, but it counts the characters in a shortcode and in HTML entities and leaves uncompleted words.
How can I stop it from counting the characters in HTML and shortcodes, and finish a word?
function get_my_excerpt(){
$excerpt = get_the_content();
$excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, 200);
$excerpt = $excerpt.'... ';
return $excerpt;
Tried Advanced Excerpt plugin and its actually broken. Doesn’t work no matter what I do in the settings. Author of the plugin hasn’t answered questions concerning it.
I am impressed with how fast you can troubleshoot an issue!
