Topic: Excerpt Length Won’t Shorten

Paully
March 22, 2024 at 4:40 pm

Hi, I have added an excerpt to the excerpt section of a post. I have tried shortening the length a couple of ways (and purged the cache) but neither of them seem to work.

1 – Appearance > Customize > Layout > Blog > Changed to 20 (It didn’t work)
2 – Within the (Magazine Latest Posts) Element query loop template. Data Source (Current Post), Content Source (Excerpt), Excerpt Length (20). Still didn’t work.

Can you help please?
(page in the private area)

Ying

March 23, 2024 at 9:36 am

Hi there,

Try this PHP snippet:

add_filter( 'wp_trim_excerpt', 'yh_trim_custom_excerpt' );

function yh_trim_custom_excerpt( $excerpt ) {
    $output = $excerpt;

    // Limit word count to 20
    $words_limit = 20;
	
    $excerpt_words = preg_split('/[\s]+/', $excerpt, $words_limit + 1);
    if (count($excerpt_words) > $words_limit) {
        array_pop($excerpt_words);
        $excerpt = implode(' ', $excerpt_words);
    }

    if ( has_excerpt() ) {
        $output = sprintf( '%1$s... <a href="%2$s">%3$s</a>',
            $excerpt,
            get_permalink(),
            __( 'Read more', 'generatepress' )
        );
    }

    return $output;
}

Paully
March 23, 2024 at 2:31 pm

Thanks Ying, that’s perfect.
Ying
March 24, 2024 at 9:10 am

You are welcome 🙂

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