How to Customize WordPress Excerpt?Length
MD Zakaria Islam
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MD Zakaria Islam
Senior WordPress Developer, Expert in developing WordPress Theme, Plugin, Gutenberg Block. A big fan of Headless WordPress. Talks about PHP | Javascript | React | Vue | Laravel | Shopify App Development
WordPress Excerpt displays a portion of the whole content. Usually, in the case of archive page, this excerpt is used to display a part instead of showing whole content.
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It is often needed to change the excerpt default length based on your needs. So, if you are feeling the need of setting a custom excerpt length for your website, this post will satisfy your query.
We will use a filter hook named excerpt_length. It accepts a parameter that contains the length of the post. So, simply write the following codes in the theme’s functions.php file.
Set your expected value to return like 30. As a result, now 30 words will be displayed.