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Revision: 54258
at December 17, 2011 06:46 by verticalgrain
Initial Code 
// In Functions.php:
function the_excerpt_max_charlength($charlength) {
   $excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
   $charlength++;
   if(strlen($excerpt)>$charlength) {
	   $subex = substr($excerpt,0,$charlength-5);
	   $exwords = explode(" ",$subex);
	   $excut = -(strlen($exwords[count($exwords)-1]));
	   if($excut<0) {
			echo substr($subex,0,$excut);
	   } else {
			echo $subex;
	   }
	   echo "[...]";
   } else {
	   echo $excerpt;
   }
}




// In wordpress template:
<?php the_excerpt_max_charlength(250); ?>
Initial URL 
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_excerpt
Initial Description 
function that creates a template tag that can be used to insert excerpts with different lengths. Also controls characters that come after excerpt
Initial Title 
Wordpress excerpt length tag
Initial Tags 
wordpress
Initial Language 
PHP