Title: Issues with excerpt length
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Issues with excerpt length

 *  Resolved [eyephone21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eyephone21/)
 * (@eyephone21)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-excerpt-length/)
 * With the excerpt length set for 7 words it works fine, but if i set the limit
   to 8 it get 10 words! I’ve triple checked the code, but i can’t find nothing “
   suspicious”..
 * Anybody else experiencing issues?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-views-query-and-display-post-page/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/content-views-query-and-display-post-page/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Content Views](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pt-guy/)
 * (@pt-guy)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-excerpt-length/#post-6783039)
 * Hi,
    Can you send me URL of a page which illustrates problem? So I can help you
   to fix it.
 *  Thread Starter [eyephone21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eyephone21/)
 * (@eyephone21)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-excerpt-length/#post-6783042)
 * Thanks, it’s still under construction, and the guy keep changing his mind about
   everything, so for now it’s very far to be published…
    thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Content Views](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pt-guy/)
 * (@pt-guy)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-excerpt-length/#post-6783078)
 * if so, can you send me top 20 words of post content which excerpt length doesn’t
   work?

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-excerpt-length/#post-6783078)
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