Post length on front page

go to index.php and look for <?php the_excerpt();?> If it exists, change it to <?php the_content();?> Now you can go to your posts and count out 80 words and click the More button where you would like your post length to be. You will get a tag inserted in your text that looks like <–more–> indicating that this is where your front page post length will stop.

Sounds complicated, but it’s not, and it’s what most people do. Also, if you want to customize the “continue reading” text, your <?php the_content();?> should have desired text in single quotes between the brackets like these examples:

<?php the_content(‘Continue Reading’);?>
<?php the_content(‘Read More of This Post’);?>

Hope this helps

Thanks! Will try it out!

a better way is to add
post_settings['post_content_length'] = 80;
in core.php, after
$post_settings = get_option("mystique");

?? Thanks a lot!

And how would I do to make that setting go into the featured post slideshow as well?

Is the text in the featured post cached somewhere, or it it read in real-time?

echo ‘<div class=”summary”>’.mystique_strip_string(420, strip_tags(strip_shortcodes($featured_post[‘post_content’]))).'</div>’;

in featured-post.php

Would that be it?

yes, change the “420” value with another one.

hello, what is core.php , i dont have such file ? i also need to decrease post length.

It’s a WordPress core file and it should never be edited unless you really, really, know what you’re doing. Try adding the following to your theme’s function.php file:

// Decrease excerpt length
function my_excerpt_length($length) {
	return 20; // Or whatever you want the length to be.
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');

@esmi Thanks for that little snippet of code for decreasing excerpt size. Works a treat!