How to change the length of the default WordPress excerpt length

October 31, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

If you are using WordPress for your website you may want to change the length of the default excerpt. You can then add this code to your functions.php file. You may want to backup your WordPress website before you make updates to that on there.

/**
 * Update default excerpt length
 *
 * @author WPSnacks.com
 * @link https://www.wpsnacks.com
 */
function the_excerpt_length($length) {
     return #;
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'the_excerpt_length');

Then you replace the # with the number of the new length you want the except to be on there.

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