the_excerpt() length – changing the default not working

  • neon_dannii

    (@neon_dannii)


    14 years, 5 months ago

    I’ve got the latest version of wordpress installed.

    I’m writing text into the excerpt box in the ‘add new post’ box of the admin system and then calling this via the_excerpt() function.

    I’ve tried several ways of changing the default excerpt length from 55 to 10 words, including changing the excerpt_length in the formatting.php file, as well as adding the well known functions within my own theme’s functions template that I found in the codex.

    Can anyone give me any pointers or codes where they have been successful in trimming the excerpt length?

    Much appreciated!

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  • Peter Boosten

    (@pboosten)

    14 years, 5 months ago

    Put this in your functions.php

    /* Create excerpt with 10 words and preserved HTML tags */
function my_wp_trim_excerpt($text) {
{
  if ( '' == $text ) {
  $text = get_the_content('');
  $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
  $text = str_replace(']]>', ']]&gt', $text);
  $excerpt_length = 10;
  $words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
  if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
    array_pop($words);
    array_push($words, '[...]');
    $text = implode(' ', $words);
    }
  }
return $text;
}

// remove WordPress default excerpt filter
remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
// Add our custom filter with low priority
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', my_wp_trim_excerpt, 20);

    Peter

    skywolfyx1

    (@skywolfyx1)

    13 years, 11 months ago

    you can use like that

    <div class="entry">
			<div class="imgc5">
			<?php echo get_the_image(); ?>
			</div>
			<?php $excerpt = 130; //chracter number here
	$excerpt_more_text = __('Read More','options').' &raquo;';
	$odd_post = 'odd'; $i = 1;?>
		<?php limit_content($excerpt, $excerpt_more_text); ?>
				</div>
	</div>
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