{"id":261,"date":"2012-02-10T23:22:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T23:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theextremewebdesigns.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2012-02-10T23:22:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T23:22:20","slug":"wordpress-limit-excerpt-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theextremewebdesigns.com\/blog\/wordpress-limit-excerpt-length\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress: Limit excerpt length"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever thought of showing limited information about an article on the homepage of your blog? This limited information is called “Excerpt”. It can also be called as a “Post summary” or “Description of a post”. Here is a little\u00a0snippet that will let you, in WordPress, limit excerpt length.<\/p>\n

How to Limit excerpt length in WordPress<\/h2>\n

Simply paste the following function into functions.php file of your WordPress theme:<\/p>\n

<?php\n\nfunction limit_excerpt_length($string, $word_limit)\n{\n$words = explode(' ', $string);\n\nreturn implode( ' ', array_slice($words, 0, $word_limit) );\n\n}\n\n?><\/pre>\n
Then simply paste the following line of code in your theme, where you want to limit the excerpt length (most commonly used in index.php file)<\/p>\n
<?php\n\/\/Simply change the number 50 to a number of your choice to limit the excerpt length\n\/\/up to the specified number\necho limit_excerpt_length(get_the_excerpt(),  '50');\n?><\/pre>\n
Your turn!<\/h5>\n
Do you know of any other ways to limit the excerpt length in WordPress? If yes, please feel free to share with us by commenting below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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