epic4life

AHHHHH HAH!
I found the file and where to change it to set wordpress’ default from 55 to whatever you need. Maybe I’m the only person who will ever need it, but here it is:
in the wp-includes folder there is a file labeled formatting.php
on line 845 is the following code:

$excerpt_length = 55;

change this value, and wah lah, it’s fixed! Thanks for your help!

I am very new to php, the code I am trying to change is
<p class="content"><?php echo strip_tags(get_the_excerpt(), '<a><strong>'); ?></p>

I tried inserting the “the_content_rss” piece that jessn gave in place of the “get_the_excerpt” code, but nothing would show up…

I am editing a template and this is the last little change I would like to make to simplify the featured sections article. It’s designed so you can put excerpts but I would prefer it to default to so many words of the content…

Thanks for any help!

I figured out the time lag but am still not able to figure out the forms, I think it must be in the CSS, but I am relatively new to this whole thing. I am basically good at stripping other code and manipulating it to work how I want, but this is sending me for a doozy…

I am dumb, I just needed to clear the cache and cookies… Shoot…