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Wordpress excerpt custom word limitation

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  1. <?php
  2.  
  3. //this part goes to functions.php
  4.  
  5. function string_limit_words($string, $word_limit)
  6. {
  7.   $words = explode(' ', $string, ($word_limit + 1));
  8.   if(count($words) > $word_limit) {
  9.   array_pop($words);
  10.   //add a ... at last article when more than limit word count
  11.   echo implode(' ', $words)."..."; } else {
  12.   //otherwise
  13.   echo implode(' ', $words); }
  14. }
  15.  
  16. //this part goes to template
  17.  
  18.   $excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
  19.   echo string_limit_words($excerpt,25);
  20.  
  21. ?>

URL: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-the-number-of-words-in-excerpt-without-plugins

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