Title: excerpt length
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# excerpt length

 *  [maggieymae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maggieymae/)
 * (@maggieymae)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-10/)
 * I’ve tried to change the excerpt length but am having no luck. Is there something
   I am overlooking.

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 *  [FarzamF](https://wordpress.org/support/users/farzamf/)
 * (@farzamf)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-10/#post-5979040)
 * Hi maggieymae ,
    you want to change it for which part ?
 *  Thread Starter [maggieymae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maggieymae/)
 * (@maggieymae)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-10/#post-5979059)
 * Thanks for answering. I decided to use “read more” to control the size. I’ve 
   applied categories to pages with a plug in and I am using a category view to 
   present specific pages together as a grid view. The excerpts were really long
   and it didn’t seem like evolve theme settings for excerpts made any difference.
   Maybe I just don’t know what that setting does. Is there something I can read
   that explains that setting?
 *  [FarzamF](https://wordpress.org/support/users/farzamf/)
 * (@farzamf)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-10/#post-5979064)
 * this option works if you set the layot on grid mode as it said in theme option
 * > Enter number of characters for Post Title Excerpt. This works only if a grid
   > layout is enabled.
 *  Thread Starter [maggieymae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maggieymae/)
 * (@maggieymae)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-10/#post-5979065)
 * It didn’t work for me. I set it to 40 and there were at least 200. I tried other
   numbers too. Always the same amount of characters… never changed.
 *  [FarzamF](https://wordpress.org/support/users/farzamf/)
 * (@farzamf)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-10/#post-5979066)
 * can you post a link of your website ?
 *  Thread Starter [maggieymae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maggieymae/)
 * (@maggieymae)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-10/#post-5979068)
 * Not yet- it isn’t live yet at the request of the person in charge. I am happy
   with the solution of adding read more but the excerpt setting doesn’t work of
   me.
 *  [emranemranx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emranemranx/)
 * (@emranemranx)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-10/#post-5979180)
 * Hi there,
 * Thanks for writing in,
 * It’s been three weeks and we presume you’ve gone your website online so please
   provide us the link of your website so we can go into further process to figure
   out your problem with excerpt settings problem.
 * Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [maggieymae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maggieymae/)
 * (@maggieymae)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-10/#post-5979181)
 * Thanks!
 * As noted… I decided to use “read more” within the posts to control the size. 
   Changing the settings doesn’t change the length.
 * Before you mention there might be a plugin conflict. This situation was happening
   before plugins were installed.
 * The site is learningtowertutor dot com and the category where I wanted to control
   the size of the post intro is programs.
 *  [emranemranx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emranemranx/)
 * (@emranemranx)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-10/#post-5979183)
 * Hi there,
 * If you wish to change the length of your read more button I may suggest you to
   change the line-height of your button as for example you want to make it to 25px
   so you may add this code into your CSS:
 *     ```
       .post-more {
         position: absolute;
         bottom: 20px;
         left: 8%;
         text-shadow: 0 1px 2px #111!important;
         padding: 0px 15px;
         cursor: pointer;
         -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
         -moz-border-radius: 3px;
         -border-radius: 3px;
         border-radius: 3px;
         border-width: 1px;
         border-style: solid;
         -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.29);
         -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.29);
         -box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.29);
         box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.29);
         color: #fff;
         text-shadow: 0 1px 0px #000;
         font-size: 13px;
         line-height: 25px;
         text-align: center;
       }
       ```
   
 * Hope this helps!
    Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [maggieymae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maggieymae/)
 * (@maggieymae)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-10/#post-5979184)
 * Thank you. I didn’t want to change the CSS of the button but that is good to 
   know. I wanted to change the excerpt length – the settings in evolve didn’t change
   it. I used the “read more” option inside the post editor.
 *  [emranemranx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emranemranx/)
 * (@emranemranx)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-10/#post-5979185)
 * Hi there,
 * Please add following code in your child theme **functions.php** file:
 *     ```
       function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
       	return 20;
       }
       add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );
       ```
   
 * Please replace the no. as per your desired amount.
 * Hope this helps!
    Thanks.

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