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Great code and it works, but I have a problem. If the content have a italic () text at the beging of the text and the closing tag of this text is further than the count limit it show in the theme only the first tag () and the rest don´t so it´s an open tag afecting all theme design.

Much thanx and Happy New Year :9

[...]Quick Tip #8 - Limit the length of ‘the_excerpt’ in WordPress | Nouveller[...]…

There was some discussion regarding adding the ellipsis(…). I also wanted to add the ellipsis to the end, but got to thinking, what if my excerpt is shorter than the word limit. The ellipsis would be pointless. So I modified the function a bit, and the call to it in the template file. I figured I could let the function do the echo of the excerpt, much the way wordpress’ own functions do.

Anyway, thought I’d share.

First, the code for functions.php:

function custom_excerpt($string, $word_limit) {
$words = explode(’ ‘, $string);

$count = count($words);
if ($count > $word_limit) {
echo (implode(’ ‘, array_slice($words, 0, $word_limit)) . ‘…’);
}
else {
echo implode(’ ‘, array_slice($words, 0, $word_limit));
}
}

and here’s the code for the template file:

if (the_excerpt !== “”) {
custom_excerpt(get_the_excerpt(), ‘100′);
}

else {
custom_excerpt(the_content, ‘10′);
}