{"id":993342,"date":"2015-08-05T04:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/photo-view-excerpt\/"},"modified":"2015-08-29T07:05:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T14:05:03","slug":"photo-view-excerpt","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/photo-view-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo View excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi.. in Photo view, I would like to change the &#8220;get excerpt&#8221; to an auto-excerpt function, so that it automatically goes and get the first 10 words and then prints  &#8220;read more&#8221; . I think this is important because at the moment it would rely on my client adding the right amount of words in the event post &#8220;excerpt&#8221; and I do not want to rely on their discipline to do this, because they will not get it right 100% of the time and it will spoil the look I have created where the I have the Photo look as same height containers.<\/p>\n<p>There is some information in the forum as how to do this, but it is from a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>So, what is the current view as to the best way to achieve this? btw..I would prefer to code it rather than use a plugin.<br \/>\nBTW&#8230;having an option to do this for the event title as well would be awesome<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-993342","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>Photo View excerpt -<\/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\/photo-view-excerpt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Photo View excerpt -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi.. in Photo view, I would like to change the &#8220;get excerpt&#8221; to an auto-excerpt function, so that it automatically goes and get the first 10 words and then prints &#8220;read more&#8221; . 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