Title: Increase content character limit
Last modified: September 1, 2017

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# Increase content character limit

 *  Resolved [stewartmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stewartmedia/)
 * (@stewartmedia)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-content-character-limit/)
 * Sorry if there’s a really obvious answer to this, but I just can’t work it out!
 * At present, the content for each post is limited to a certain amount of characters,
   which means there’s a ‘Read more’ link at the bottom of my process steps. I thought
   it maybe related to the standard WP blog settings for excerpts, but it’s not 
   and it’s doing my head in! Haha.
 * Is there an easy way to change this that I’m just missing?
 * Cheers 🙂

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 *  Plugin Author [CoolHappy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narinder-singh/)
 * (@narinder-singh)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-content-character-limit/#post-9462510)
 * Hi,
    Yes, We have used standard WordPress.org the_excerpt() function.But we have
   applied **excerpt_length ** filter hook.
 * `add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );`
 * [https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/excerpt_length](https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/excerpt_length)
 * In order to change content length you have to just modify one line of code.
    
   Please find and open **process/includes/process_shortcode.php** file and find**
   pp_custom_excerpt_length **function and change **$ctl_content_length =50;** according
   to your requirement.
 * We will also remove this filter in next updates.
 * Thanks,
 *  Thread Starter [stewartmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stewartmedia/)
 * (@stewartmedia)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-content-character-limit/#post-9466193)
 * That’s great, thanks very much.
 *  Plugin Author [CoolHappy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/narinder-singh/)
 * (@narinder-singh)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-content-character-limit/#post-9466442)
 * It’s my Pleasure.
 * Hope you liked our plugin and support. Please give us your valuable feedback.
 * Thanks In Advance!
    CoolHappy
 *  Thread Starter [stewartmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stewartmedia/)
 * (@stewartmedia)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-content-character-limit/#post-9466912)
 * Yes, I’ll add my feedback shortly.
 * One last question is how can I add paragraphs to the excerpt? I’ve tried multiple
   methods in the editor – adding paragraph tags, adding line breaks etc – but it
   always displays the text as one paragraph.
 * Any idea why?
 * Thanks
 *  Thread Starter [stewartmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stewartmedia/)
 * (@stewartmedia)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-content-character-limit/#post-9471688)
 * I’ve just upgraded to Version 1.1, and the filter has not been removed as you
   said it would above. Am I going to have to amend the code each time this plugin
   is updated?

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