How To Set The Limit Of Words In the_excerpt In WordPress

Hi,

Many of the wordpress user wants to set the summary limit in the_excerpt. We can do it simply by adding the function:

function excerpt($num)
{
$limit = $num+1;
$excerpt = explode(‘ ‘, get_the_excerpt(), $limit);
array_pop($excerpt);
$excerpt = implode(” “,$excerpt).”…”;
echo $excerpt;
}

Add this function in function.php file of your theme. Now, edit the index.php file of your theme and find this:

Find:
the_excerpt()

Replace with:
<? php excerpt(’25′); ?>

This will set to 25 words in the excerpt summary. You can modify it according to your requirement.

Thanks,

Shane G.

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