Excerpt box size edit

1.2.1
line 104
edit-form-advanced.php
<div><textarea rows="1" cols="40" name="excerpt" tabindex="4" id="excerpt"><?php echo $excerpt ?>
Change it there ?

Thank you pods, I tried but the hack doesn’t work (BTW, I doublechecked to have emptied the cache and tried both with Safari and IE.)

You may need to also change wp-admin.css. Find the setting for #excerpt, and change
height: 1.8em;
to
height: 8.8em;
or whatever higher number you like.

Hallo pericat,
as first, thanks a lot:))
I follosed your suggestion and here is the error I got:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /usr/var/www/html/meaed/wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php on line 269
I checked all the missed blanks and so that could affect the source code but I got no results.
This stuff really makes me crazy…

stulegmo — I’m guessing you put that in the php file didn’t you….. take it out. put it in the wp-admin.CSS file…. that’s CSS code, not PHP.
Tg

Hall Tg,
I’ve found the mistake: I used a too big figure in the wp-admin.css. Now everythimg works.
Thanks alot, chaps:)))
stulegmo

I was thrilled to find this tip and I’m trying to change the size of the Admin Manage Write excerpt box, and changing the css in wp-admin.css isn’t working. I’m in 1.5. I’ve been hunting for the stylesheet callout, to make sure I’m on the right css but I can’t find that through all the multiple file includes.

Where is the css link and should I change the excerpt height through the css in 1.5? Or is it hard coded?

PS: I know this is a beta topic, but it relates.

I don’t know how I “fixed it” but frustrated with my post taking forever to save, I simply hit REFRESH and suddenly I had a wide Excerpt box. I’ve been saving, loading and reloading over 60 posts from the post page as I edit them but I had to do a REFESH to actually implement the css….odd. Anyway, thanks for the wonderful tip!

I had a similar problem with my newest blog. I needed to have a longer excerpt box, however, nothing I tried worked (not even editing the CSS) – however, I opened up edit-form-advanced.php and found this line:
<textarea rows=”1″ cols=”40″ name=”excerpt” tabindex=”4″ id=”excerpt”>

change rows=”1″ to whatever number you like, I changed mine to 5 which was sufficient for me.

Hope that helps someone out.

Okay, I had this figured out and after an upgrade of the latests version, I have to go in and edit this again and this is what I find:

<?php
$rows = get_settings('default_post_edit_rows');
if (($rows < 3) || ($rows > 100)) {
$rows = 10;
}
?>
<div><textarea rows="<?php echo $rows; ?>" cols="40" name="content" tabindex="5" id="content">

Somewhere in the $rows, I have to change “something” to get the edit text area larger. I used to just change the rows="40" to a bigger number but now I’m stymied.

Help?

Well, with the new WP 1.5 out – it’s still the same method mention by theuniek1.

Open up the edit-form-advanced.php file and change rows=”#” (# being the number you want) – the bit of code you’re referencing is for the actual “post content” – not for the excerpt.

If that still does not work for you, edit the height in the wp-admin.css file – search for #excerpt and change height: 1.8em; to whatever you want or delete the height reference completely.

Hope that helps