Title: Excerpt on Testimonials
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Excerpt on Testimonials

 *  [vinhx76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinhx76/)
 * (@vinhx76)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-on-testimonials/)
 * Love this plugin, thank you for all your hard work!
 * Was wondering if theres’s a shortcode way to limit the character to say 50 in
   a testimonial?
 * I tried this but it does not work.
 * [testimonial_rotator id=”1″ shuffle=”true” excerpt=”50″]
 * Any advise would be much appreciated!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/testimonial-rotator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/testimonial-rotator/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Hal Gatewood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halgatewood/)
 * (@halgatewood)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-on-testimonials/#post-7321975)
 * Try using `excerpt_length="50"`
 *  [strandcreative](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strandcreative/)
 * (@strandcreative)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-on-testimonials/#post-7321978)
 * Hi, I am struggling with this also.
    I want to excerpt testimonials in a rotator
   because some testimonials are really long and others are quite short.
 * I have used this but no joy:
 * `[testimonial_rotator id=18237 excerpt_length="50"]`
 *  [onpointmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onpointmedia/)
 * (@onpointmedia)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-on-testimonials/#post-8355082)
 * After having issues with this and messing around with it I noticed that the flag
   for
    show_size must be set to excerpt or it doesn’t work on the shortcode.
 * So example:
    [testimonial_rotator id=2716 show_size=”excerpt” excerpt_length=”
   10″]
 * On the Default Template of the rotator this is true in loop-testimonial.php :
   //
   CONTENT if( $show_body ) { echo “<div class=\”testimonial_rotator_quote\”>\n”;
   echo ($show_size == “full”) ? do_shortcode(nl2br(get_the_content(‘ ‘))) : testimonial_rotator_excerpt(
   $excerpt_length, $link_text ); echo “</div>\n”; }
 * It may be in other places too, but this is where I noticed that the flag for 
   show_size needed to be set for it to work as well. Took a bit to find this issue…
   It would be great if this is the case if Hal could put it into his documents 
   somewhere, or change the functionality so its’ not needed in the shortcode. IE
   if an excerpt length is set, assume it is excerpt…

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## Tags

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

 * 3 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [onpointmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/onpointmedia/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-on-testimonials/#post-8355082)
 * Status: not resolved