Excerpt-Length
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The newly-added excerpt length specification is a godsend, as I previously had to just cut off the text at one line, but I see that you don’t shorten the length of manually-specified excerpts (re:https://github.com/billerickson/display-posts-shortcode/issues/110).
I usually want to truncate the output of the display-posts excerpt to 1 or 2 lines almost everywhere where I use it, so having the ability to cut off even ones I’ve specified would be very useful (since I have different space constraints on category pages and the places where I use the plugin). I previously made due by using CSS to truncate, but I can only do that to one line.
For example, I would have a manually specified excerpt for a category page, but on my home page I use the shortcode to choose a random “feature” article, with the title and short excerpt laid over the featured image. If it uses my full-length excerpt, I don’t have the ability to control the length of the text to make sure everything fits. I imagine that most people who would make use of this parameter would need it for something similar (hard space constraints) that the override interferes with.
Example:
https://learn.stocktrak.com/
for the “word of the day”, “beginner’s help”, and “advanced” pieces, which I would really want a maximum excerpt length for to keep everything well-positioned.My only other suggestion would be a wrapper around the entire title, excerpt-dash, and excerpt when using a div wrapper type so all the text can be more easily positioned relative to images.
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