{"id":30206,"date":"2010-04-10T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=30206"},"modified":"2012-10-02T23:03:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T03:03:47","slug":"daily-tip-easily-change-the-length-of-the-default-wordpress-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-easily-change-the-length-of-the-default-wordpress-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Easily Change the Length of the Default WordPress Excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The default WordPress excerpt is 55 words long. By adding this quick bit to your <i>functions.php<\/i> file you can change the length to better suit your theme:<\/p>\n<p><code>function new_excerpt_length($length) {<\/code><br \/>\n<code>return 42;<\/code><br \/>\n<code>}<\/code><br \/>\n<code>add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');<\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 11px;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Template_Tags\/the_excerpt\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress Codex<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The default WordPress excerpt is 55 words long. By adding this quick bit to your functions.php file you can change the length to better suit your theme: function new_excerpt_length($length) { return 42; } add_filter(&#8216;excerpt_length&#8217;, &#8216;new_excerpt_length&#8217;); Source: WordPress Codex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,557],"tags":[],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-30206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-community","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181658,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30206\/revisions\/181658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30206"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=30206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}