Title: Limit word plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Limit word plugin

 *  [munky100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/munky100/)
 * (@munky100)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-word-plugin/)
 * I am using the word limit plugin ([http://labitacora.net/index.php?p=152](http://labitacora.net/index.php?p=152)).
   One of the instructions says:
 * 4. Go into your index.php file and change the function the_content() with the_content_limit(
   $max_characters, $link_text) where:
    $max_characters: maximum amount of characters
   shown for an entry in the main page (index.php) $link_text: text that is used
   to generate the link to the whole article.
 * When I open index.php all I can see is:
 * <?php
    /* Short and sweet */ define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true); require(‘./wp-blog-
   header.php’); ?>
 * What do I do?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-word-plugin/#post-314936)
 * They mean the index file here:
    [http://www.example.com/wp-content/themes/theme-name/index.php](http://www.example.com/wp-content/themes/theme-name/index.php)
 * That help ?
 *  [iand](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iand/)
 * (@iand)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-word-plugin/#post-314941)
 * You need to edit the index.php file in the folder for the theme you are using-
   > wp-content/themes/themeinuse/index.php Depending on how your theme is and what
   you want, you may also want to change page.php etc too.
 *  Thread Starter [munky100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/munky100/)
 * (@munky100)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-word-plugin/#post-314951)
 * oh right thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [munky100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/munky100/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-word-plugin/#post-314951)
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