Title: Problem with Excerpts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Problem with Excerpts

 *  Resolved [KTS915](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kts915/)
 * (@kts915)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-excerpts-3/)
 * This looks really useful.
 * At the moment, however, the plugin doesn’t show a post’s excerpt, and instead
   picks the first `n` words of the post (according to how many are specified in
   the widget).
 * Would it be possible to have the widget show the excerpt for each post that I’ve
   already manually created (and without any following ellipsis)?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-from-category/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-from-category/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Manesh Timilsina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maneshtimilsina/)
 * (@maneshtimilsina)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-excerpts-3/#post-4976330)
 * Plugin use words from content of the post. There is no hook in current version
   of the plugin so you have to change plugin’s code.
    You can find following code
   at line 115 of post-from-category.php <p><?php echo custom_limit_words(sanitize_text_field(
   get_the_content()), $post_length); ?></p>
 * Please replace it with
    <p><?php echo custom_limit_words(sanitize_text_field(
   get_the_excerpt()), $post_length); ?></p>
 * Please note that your changes will be loss when you update plugin in future. 
   But, I will provide hooks and function in upcoming version so you can override
   it from your theme functions.
 *  Thread Starter [KTS915](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kts915/)
 * (@kts915)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-excerpts-3/#post-4976378)
 * Perfect! Thank you very much!

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 * Last reply from: [KTS915](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kts915/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-excerpts-3/#post-4976378)
 * Status: resolved