How to Edit The Excerpt

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Changing the Excerpt length

Paste this code to the functions.php of your theme folder.

function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
	return 30; //change this number to determine the number of words returned
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

Adding “Read More” link after the excerpt

function new_excerpt_more($more) {
        return '... <span class="read-more"><a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">Read more  &raquo;</a></span>';
       //if you just want to remove the [...] after the excerpt, use 'return '';'
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

That’s it.

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