Comments on: Quick Tip #8 - Limit the length of ‘the_excerpt’ in WordPress

By: sagive

sagive — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:29:42 +0000

thanks man.. exactly what i searched for. maybe you could include in this post a link to add “read more” link in the end

Nouveller — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:30:21 +0000

Thanks for the comment Mike, you should check out the substr PHP function, that should do away with any un-wanted characters.

Mike Freeman — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 19:22:32 +0000

Awesome, thanks! What about changing it so it shows characters, not words?

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:01:05 +0000

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Nouveller — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:32:59 +0000

Plus I think what you posted will globally change the_excerpt. In this case I needed to modify one particular excerpt without changing the other.

Nouveller — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:30:43 +0000

No there isn’t, but you can apply the technique in other applications - not just WordPress. It’s good to know how things work.

Kawauso — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:57:32 +0000

No need to rewrite the wheel.

Gojeg — Thu, 27 May 2010 09:45:48 +0000

Nice trick! I will try it..

Ttravis Stowe — Wed, 26 May 2010 12:48:40 +0000

nice, I didn’t think about that. thanks for the share.. : )

age — Wed, 26 May 2010 02:09:03 +0000

update ->the code is:

if (the_excrept!==”"){
echo limit_words(get_the_excerpt(), ‘25′);
}else{
echo limit_words(the_content, ‘25′);
}