How to change the WordPress default excerpt length – WP-Snippet.com How to change the WordPress default excerpt length – WP-Snippet.com

This snippet will let you define a new custom default excerpt length for the WordPress excerpts output.
The following example will set the default excerpt length to 20 characters.

Instructions
Add this code to your functions.php file.

function new_excerpt_length($length) { return 20; } add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, ‘new_excerpt_length’);

How to change the WordPress default excerpt length

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