Title: Truncate meta description
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Truncate meta description

 *  [mrppp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrppp/)
 * (@mrppp)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/truncate-meta-description/)
 * can the meta description when using %%excerpt%% not be truncated at a word rather
   than by characters to prevent words being chopped off
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