{"id":998253,"date":"2015-08-23T06:53:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T13:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/photo-excerpt-nearly\/"},"modified":"2015-09-08T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T14:05:08","slug":"photo-excerpt-nearly","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/photo-excerpt-nearly\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo excerpt (nearly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I finally managed to get the excerpt redcued in the photo view&#8230;..the std wp codex in the function file was nto working..so I copied from another discussion and used the following code in my photo single_event.php file<\/p>\n<p>&lt;!&#8211; Event Content &#8211;&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;?php do_action( &#8216;tribe_events_before_the_content&#8217; ) ?&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;div class=&#8221;tribe-events-list-event-description tribe-events-content description entry-summary&#8221;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>          &lt;?php<br \/>\n$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();<br \/>\n$excerpt = substr( $excerpt , 0, 100);<br \/>\necho $excerpt;<br \/>\n?&gt;<br \/>\n&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n<p>and bingo &#8230;it worked!!!  however this seems to use character count&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;what can I change to enable it to use word count..?<\/p>\n<p>all the best<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-998253","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 excerpt (nearly) -<\/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-excerpt-nearly\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Photo excerpt (nearly) -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, I finally managed to get the excerpt redcued in the photo view&#8230;..the std wp codex in the function file was nto working..so I copied from another discussion and used the following code in my photo single_event.php file &lt;!&#8211; 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