Limit Excerpt Length on List Widget

[Michael Magestro]

I’ve added the excerpt to my customized list widget but I cannot find a way to limit the excerpt’s character count and add a ‘read more’ link. Any tips?

[Hunter]

Hey Michael,

This kind of code comes from your theme, so I’m really not sure the best way to go about it. We’re unfortunately unable to help with these types of customizations, but you can try adding the following snippet to your theme’s functions.php file and it will increase/decrease your excerpt length. Change the value (20) to whatever character limit fits your situation best.

function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
return 20;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

Best of luck and sorry we can’t do more here. Cheers!

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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