Title: Short Entry?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Short Entry?

 *  [vamped](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vamped/)
 * (@vamped)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-entry/)
 * Hey guys,
 * Is there a way to make only a specified amount of words appear for a post? I’m
   not up for havign excerpts for what I’m doing, or the `<!-- more -->` quicktag,
   but it would be awesome if there is a PHP code for it.
 * I’m iffy on using a plugin because sometiems plugins don’t work with newer versions
   of WP.
 * James

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-entry/#post-446804)
 * so uh… in your vision, where do the rest of the words go?
 * If you’re truly opposed to clicking the more quicktag button, why not just convert
   your theme to use the_excerpt? You don’t have to fill in the excerpt field on
   the Write post page — if that’s empty, WP will just show x number of chars from
   the main post.
 * or, to save typing for my 3rd thought, see my reply here from 3 minutes ago: 
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/85994?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/85994?replies=2)
 *  Thread Starter [vamped](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vamped/)
 * (@vamped)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-entry/#post-446812)
 * Will it? I didn’t know that. What do you mean by converting, and how would I 
   do that?
 * Thanks for the great assistance.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-entry/#post-446814)
 * Well, the converting depends on your theme, but in general, check out your theme’s
   index.php file. In there you’ll find a line of code calling `the_content()`. 
   Try replacing it with `the_excerpt()` and see how that works.
 * The other post I linked (in my first reply to you) refers to a plugin that enhances/
   replaces the_excerpt, but make that phase b. 😉
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content)
 *  Thread Starter [vamped](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vamped/)
 * (@vamped)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-entry/#post-446826)
 * Woops, didn’t click. Works perfectly.
 * You’re awesome 🙂

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