Title: Excerpt Length?
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Excerpt Length?

 *  Resolved [Joanna Chee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanna-chee/)
 * (@joanna-chee)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-12/)
 * Hi
 * How do I change the excerpt length?
 * Thanks for any help.
 * Joanna
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/)

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 *  [gcjproductions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gcjproductions/)
 * (@gcjproductions)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-12/#post-6074147)
 * Just found this later in the support forum. The answer is here: [https://gist.github.com/billerickson/1179950](https://gist.github.com/billerickson/1179950)
 * put this file in your functions.php. Works like a charm.
 *  [maggew](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maggew/)
 * (@maggew)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-12/#post-6074176)
 * Marvelous!
 *  [bogosavljev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bogosavljev/)
 * (@bogosavljev)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-12/#post-6074195)
 * This solution: [https://gist.github.com/billerickson/1179950](https://gist.github.com/billerickson/1179950)
   are not working in version 2.5.1, WordPress 4.4.2
 * Any idea why does not working? How to change default excerpt from 50 to 15?
 * Djuka

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

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-length-12/#post-6074195)
 * Status: resolved