Excerpt character length

Hi wasanajones,

At this time there is no way to limit the number of characters in the except. The best way around with would be to use the Custom Content option. The Content Character Limit setting only targets the Page Content option. Sorry!

I have noted this feature request, but do not have a timeframe or guarantee for implementation.

Best,
Nick

fair enough, thanks for following up. so far so good with the plugin, appreciate it.

If I might chime in here, though late to the party…

The route I took was to enble support for manual excerpts for pages (see below) and then to create a manual excerpt for each page for which I created a GFPA widget.

I went this route instead of using the Custom Content option because I think it will be more intuitive for my client to change the manual excerpt on the Edit-Page screen than from within the widgets. But really, it’s probably 6 of 1, half dozen of the other.

Here’s the code I added to my functions.php:

add_action( 'init', 'nwb_add_excerpts_to_pages' );
function nwb_add_excerpts_to_pages() {
	add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );
}

(Love the plugin.)

I am using the Featured Page Advanced widget with the Featured Page being one where the content changes — so I need an Auto Excerpt, not a Manual Custom one. When I use the Widget to show the page — If I select Show Page Content, the HTML Format is kept and shown in the Featured Page, but I don’t want to show the entire page. However, if I select Show Page Excerpt or Show Page Content, but with a number in Content Character Limit: — I lose all the HTML Formatting. Is there a fix for this? I don’t want to show the entire Page listed for the Featured Page, but want to keep the HTML format.

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