Force excerpt length in Modules

Hi,

is it possible to force the excerpt length to a maximum value?
I know, it’s possible to change the “content length” excerpt in the Theme Panel for every single module. Usually the settings are working fine.

In our example:

But if the editor uses the standard WP excerpt function inside a post to create a individual excerpt, the settings of the theme panel will be ignored. As the editor is not using every time the same length for the excerpts, it doesn’t look very good on the overview page (different excerpt length).

It would be nice, if the theme panel settings have the most priority, more than the standard WP excerpt, to have always the same length for the excerpts.

Thanks in advance!

Can’t you use the “letters” option vs “words” option to make excerpts same length ?

We did this with Newsmag theme; thought that was also option in Newspaper ?

(sorry if wrong … ) 🙂

Hi Chris,

it doesn’t matter which theme settings are active (letters vs words). I have set up the title and content length in the theme excerpt settings for the modules.
It seems that the theme excerpt length settings will be ignored, if the editor writes an own excerpt in the post (like this one -> https://wpist.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/edit-page-e280b9-wordpress-beta-e28094-wordpress.png ).

I tried some other wordpress workarounds to limit the max excerpt length, found in the internet, but they will be ignored too.
As we have restricted content for our users, we need this function to change the excerpt.

The excerpt length without the individual excerpt work fine.