Title: Increase Excerpt Length
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Increase Excerpt Length

 *  Resolved [WSO.host](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzznot99/)
 * (@buzznot99)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-excerpt-length-2/)
 * I would like to increase the length of the blog excerpts. I’ve tried this simple
   suggested code but it doesn’t seem to work:
 * [http://code.withlovee.com/?p=139](http://code.withlovee.com/?p=139)
 * function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
    return 20; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’,‘
   custom_excerpt_length’, 999 );
 * Thank you

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 *  Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * (@bensibley)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-excerpt-length-2/#post-5105495)
 * Very close!
 * Ignite’s excerpt length filter is using a priority of 999 too as per [the codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/excerpt_length).
   If you change yours to ‘9999’ or any value greater than 999 it will work.
 *  Thread Starter [WSO.host](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzznot99/)
 * (@buzznot99)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-excerpt-length-2/#post-5105503)
 * Perfect, great support. Thanks!
 *  Theme Author [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * (@bensibley)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-excerpt-length-2/#post-5105557)
 * No problem, thanks for using Ignite 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [Ben Sibley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bensibley/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increase-excerpt-length-2/#post-5105557)
 * Status: resolved