Title: Multiple Excerpt Length
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multiple Excerpt Length

 *  [czonex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/czonex/)
 * (@czonex)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-excerpt-length/)
 * Hello friends,
    I am stuck with a problem and need your help. I am using the 
   default twenty ten theme with default excerpt length which is 40 … i am happy
   with that for my blog page. But I wish to display 3 most recent posts in my sidebar,
   for which i used the plugin “Recent Posts with Excerpts” but the problem is i
   am unable to change the expert length for my sidebar and also unable to add the“
   Read more” link like i did in my blog page.
 * I will be very thankful for your help.

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 *  Thread Starter [czonex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/czonex/)
 * (@czonex)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-excerpt-length/#post-2912039)
 * i used the following code and it works fine on my local server **but** gives 
   an error on my hosting server …. using the same WP version on both places
 *     ```
       function custom_excerpt($new_length = 20, $new_more = '...') {
         add_filter('excerpt_length', function () use ($new_length) {
           return $new_length;
         }, 999);
         add_filter('excerpt_more', function () use ($new_more) {
           return $new_more;
         });
         $output = get_the_excerpt();
         $output = apply_filters('wptexturize', $output);
         $output = apply_filters('convert_chars', $output);
         $output = '<p>' . $output . '</p>';
         echo $output;
       }
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-excerpt-length/#post-2912039)
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