Modifying your post excerpts
March 15, 2011 – 9:14 am |This is my personal favorite way of modifying excerpts, I found all this information on the WordPress codex excerpts page.
I think that the WordPress excerpt is a little bit short so the code below will extend it to 120 words. Also, by default WordPress only shows the [...] at the end of the excerpt, which doesn’t help my readers when they get to the end of the text.
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/**
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* The Read More link after the post excerpt
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*/
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function new_excerpt_more($more) {
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global $post;
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return '… <a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">» Read More</a>';
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}
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add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');
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/**
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* This changes the length of the excerpt to 120 words
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*/
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function new_excerpt_length($length) {
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return 120;
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}
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add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');
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