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Wordpress excerpt length tag

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function that creates a template tag that can be used to insert excerpts with different lengths. Also controls characters that come after excerpt

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  1. // In Functions.php:
  2. function the_excerpt_max_charlength($charlength) {
  3.    $excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
  4.    $charlength++;
  5.    if(strlen($excerpt)>$charlength) {
  6. 	   $subex = substr($excerpt,0,$charlength-5);
  7. 	   $exwords = explode(" ",$subex);
  8. 	   $excut = -(strlen($exwords[count($exwords)-1]));
  9. 	   if($excut<0) {
  10. 			echo substr($subex,0,$excut);
  11. 	   } else {
  12. 			echo $subex;
  13. 	   }
  14. 	   echo "[...]";
  15.    } else {
  16. 	   echo $excerpt;
  17.    }
  18. }
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  21.  
  22.  
  23. // In wordpress template:
  24. <?php the_excerpt_max_charlength(250); ?>

URL: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_the_excerpt

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