{"id":36516,"date":"2014-09-22T04:51:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T08:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=36516"},"modified":"2017-08-15T06:38:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T10:38:53","slug":"wordpress-how-to-change-excerpt-length-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wordpress-how-to-change-excerpt-length-limit.html","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Cherry 3.x. How to change excerpt length limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>Our Support team is ready to present you a new tutorial that will show you how to change excerpt length limit in WordPress templates. <\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HjLdg8EZbu8?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">WordPress. How to change excerpt length limit<\/a><\/p>\r\n<div class=\"inline-banner\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/service-center\/\">\r\n<img src=\"\/help\/files\/banners\/inline\/Banner-3-(835-x100).jpg\" \/>\r\n<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p>Excerpts can be displayed with shortcodes, widgets, you can see the excerpts on your Blog page.<\/p>\r\n<p>Excerpt length can usually be changed in the corresponding shortcode, widget settings or page template php file.<\/p>\r\n<p>In case you need to set big value for the excerpt length, you will need to change the excerpt length limit, which is 60 words by default.<\/p>\r\n<p>In order to change the excerpt length limit, please do the following:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Navigate to <strong>&#8220;wp-content\/themes\/CherryFramework&#8221;<\/strong> folder on your FTP. Open <strong>functions.php<\/strong> file. <\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Locate the function for the excerpt length, the code will look like the following:<\/p>\r\n<pre class=\"brush:php\">\r\n\t \/*\r\n* Custom excpert length\r\n*\r\n*\/\r\nif(!function_exists('new_excerpt_length')) {\r\n\r\nfunction new_excerpt_length($length) {\r\nreturn 60;\r\n}\r\nadd_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');\r\n}\r\n     <\/pre>\r\n<p class=\"warning\">Please don&#8217;t edit this file or any other files inside &#8220;CherryFramework&#8221; folder.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Copy the function body to <strong>themeXXXXX\/includes\/custom-function.php<\/strong> file. The code you need to copy:<\/p>\r\n<pre class=\"brush:php\">\r\n\t function new_excerpt_length($length) {\r\nreturn 60;\r\n}\r\nadd_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');\r\n     <\/pre>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li>\r\n<p>Change the excerpt limit in this file now and save changes. <\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>You can set any value less than the new excerpt length limit for the excerpt length.<\/p>\r\n<p>Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HjLdg8EZbu8?width=1280&amp;height=720\" rel=\"prettyPhoto\">WordPress. How to change excerpt length limit<\/a><\/p>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Support team is ready to present you a new tutorial that will show you how to change excerpt length limit in WordPress templates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":37578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[728],"tags":[1183,1419,871,872,2405],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82682,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36516\/revisions\/82682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}