Limiting the Text Preview

In Theme Panel, if im not mistaken ‘Excerpt Length’ is the amount of text shown in the preview of the post. I have it set to 14 (http://screencast.com/t/EPLVL5YsWK2r) but it still seems to display over 14 words (http://screencast.com/t/bi2Hma5Qz4BE) – any suggestions?

I usually over-ride this in the functions.php file as best way.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

Don’t forget WordPress has awesome documentation on a lot of this kind of thing.

To wit:
Control Excerpt Length using Filters

By default, excerpt length is set to 55 words. To change excerpt length to 20 words using excerpt_length filter, add the following code to functions.php file in your theme:

function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
	return 20;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

Currently the area in functions.php looks like:

/*  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    excerpt lenght
 */

add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');
function my_excerpt_length($length) {

    // on feed show full content if it's set in wordpress
    if (is_feed() and get_option('rss_use_excerpt') == 0) {
        return 999999;
    }
    $excerpt_length = td_util::get_option('tds_wp_default_excerpt');
    if (!empty($excerpt_length) and is_numeric($excerpt_length)) {
        return $excerpt_length;
    } else {
        return 20; //default
    }
}

I adjusted the ‘return’ but that still doesn’t work. Where do I add your adjustment?

@Lucian, no problem. Hope to see a fix soon. If you can post it in here instead of the next update that would be awesome because I have been having update problems so Im sticking on 4.0.2.

Even if I change the Excerpt in the Theme Panel it still shows more than I want. Will there be a fix for this any time soon? @Lucian

Hey, so how do I go about just hiding the full subtext in the following:

Block 6
Block 2
Module 7

I’m sure its the same code for all of them, but if not just wanted to let you know in advance. I also tried the excerpt and that doesnt limit it to zero like I want.

Okay so I did the following:

.td-post-text-excerpt {
display: none;
}

Seems to work on the blocks but not modules.

I tried

.post p {
display: none;
}

Which worked but it also hid the main post content so that was a no go.

• This reply was modified 11 years by sbo.

The module 7 doesn’t seem to work.

Got it! Thanks!