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Last modified : Sep 08 2022
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This tutorial will show you how to create a function that will set a limit of characters for your excerpts in the WordPress theme you’re using.
We trigger a simple function that will display the post content by converting it in an excerpt using the $count variable:
function templify_limit($count){
$permalink = get_permalink($post->ID);
$excerpt = get_the_content();
$excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt);
$excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, $count);
$excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, strripos($excerpt, " "));
$excerpt = $excerpt.' ...';
return $excerpt;
}Now we will display our WordPress function in our theme by specifying the number of characters with the $count variable:
<?php echo templify_limit(200); ?>