This is another useful snippet for modifying the length of the excerpt (in amount of words).
Drop this in your theme’s functions.php and modify the length as you wish:
/* Excerpt length /* ------------------------------------ */ function alx_excerpt_length( $length ) { return 30; } add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'alx_excerpt_length', 999 );
In this case I set the amount of words to 30.
Hello, thanks for this post. I am using the Anew – with Child – theme and I wonder how you can adjust ‘the_excerpt’ that includes HTML formatting (2 paragraphs for instance).
Thanks.