{"id":2260002,"date":"2011-08-24T06:08:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T06:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/changing-excerpt-length\/"},"modified":"2016-08-20T02:06:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T02:06:59","slug":"changing-excerpt-length","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/changing-excerpt-length\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing Excerpt Length"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>Im trying to change the excerpt length shown in the post previews on the homepage. the loop php file is currently outputting &#8216;the_excerpt();&#8217; in order to get the default output.<\/p>\n<p>i have tried a few plugins, recommended functions to function.php and even modify the core file in wp-include, but everytime i get the same results &#8211; which is no change.<\/p>\n<p>could anyone give me a hand with this ?<\/p>\n<p>thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-2260002","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2260002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/2260002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2260002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}