{"id":1508592,"date":"2018-04-16T13:52:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/excerpt-length-in-view\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T13:52:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T20:52:02","slug":"excerpt-length-in-view","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/excerpt-length-in-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Excerpt length in View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Events Calendar Pro Support,<\/p>\n<p>We just moved up to the Pro version and it&#8217;s great. I have a question about controlling the length of the excerpt in Photo view (numbers of characters or words). I&#8217;ve experimented and we can paste a custom excerpt into the Excerpt field in the WordPress editor. But we&#8217;d like to auto-generate an excerpt with fewer words (or characters) from the Description.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the excerpt is created by the function tribe_events_get_the_excerpt(). 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