Comments on: WordPress get_excerpt – show more words

By: Alex Costa

Alex Costa — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:56:45 +0000

Hi Mike

Thank you for the comment and improvement on the content of this post. I have added a link to your comment in the main post body.

By: Mike Schinkel

Mike Schinkel — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 07:24:54 +0000

Hi Alex,

Conceptually, this is a great idea. In practice, you are suggesting that someone modify WordPress’ core code which isa really bad idea. Instead, they should use a filter “hook.” They can add this to their theme’s functions.php file to do the same:

add_filter(‘excerpt_length’,'set_my_excerpt_length’);
function set_my_excerpt_length($length) {
return 100;
}

This works for WordPress v2.7 and later, see:
http://adambrown.info/p/wp_hooks/hook/excerpt_length?version=2.7&file=wp-includes/formatting.php

HTH.

-Mike

By: RaiulBaztepo

RaiulBaztepo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:14:15 +0000

Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo

By: etestcids

etestcids — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:16:14 +0000

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