{"id":1426646,"date":"2018-01-15T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/changing-excerpt-length\/"},"modified":"2018-01-22T10:57:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T18:57:53","slug":"changing-excerpt-length","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/changing-excerpt-length\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing excerpt length"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>We have a issue with changing the excerpt link. I found the following code on your support forum for allowing HTML characters in excerpts as we need them in the overview. However, this function broke our other function to set how many characters\/words we want to show in the excerpts:<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nadd_filter( 'wp_trim_words', 'tribe_preserve_html_in_excerpt', 10, 4 );<br \/>\nfunction tribe_preserve_html_in_excerpt( $text, $num_words, $more, $original_text ) {<\/p>\n<pre><code>remove_filter( 'wp_trim_words', 'tribe_preserve_html_in_excerpt', 10 );\n$excerpt = force_balance_tags( html_entity_decode( wp_trim_words( htmlentities( $original_text ) ) ) );\nadd_filter( 'wp_trim_words', 'tribe_preserve_html_in_excerpt', 10, 4 );\n\nreturn $excerpt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>}<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>This is the code we used to control the excerpt length which worked fine before:<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nfunction custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {<br \/>\n    return 30;<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>I hope you can help us out even though this might not be what you are used to help with.<br \/>\nThank you VERY much in advance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1426646","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Changing excerpt length -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/changing-excerpt-length\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Changing excerpt length -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hello, We have a issue with changing the excerpt link. 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