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

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# Limit Excerpt Length

 *  Resolved [maven1333](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maven1333/)
 * (@maven1333)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-excerpt-length-1/)
 * How to limit excerpt length of the posts? cant find the normal functions or the
   function that the theme uses.
 * Thank you

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 *  [Fruitful Code](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fruitfulcode/)
 * (@fruitfulcode)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-excerpt-length-1/#post-4970754)
 * By default it set 150 but you can add custom function
 *     ```
       function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
               return 20;
           }
           add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );
       ```
   
 * Where is return 20 – it’s number of symbols

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## Tags

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

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-excerpt-length-1/#post-4970754)
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