Title: Limite excerpt characters
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Limite excerpt characters

 *  [tri-fusion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tri-fusion/)
 * (@tri-fusion)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limite-excerpt-characters/)
 * Which file allowed me to edit the excerpt characters? e.g. I wanna show 150characters
   on the index page.
 * Thanks

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 *  [Karrde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karrde/)
 * (@karrde)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limite-excerpt-characters/#post-372655)
 * I suspect its in wp-includes/functions-formatting.php, around line 728, where
   it has:
 * `$excerpt_length = 55;`
 * This looks to be the number of words. However, I haven’t tested anything to be
   sure, so I might be completely wrong.
 *  Thread Starter [tri-fusion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tri-fusion/)
 * (@tri-fusion)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limite-excerpt-characters/#post-372663)
 * Appreciated a lot karrde you’re absolutely right 🙂

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limite-excerpt-characters/#post-372663)
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