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WordPress: Change the Excerpt Length

Alter the character word of the excerpts on your WordPress blog.

The following can be added to your theme’s functions.php to alter the excerpt word count.

//Filter the excerpt
function new_excerpt_length($length) {
 return 20;
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');

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