excerpt length

Hi maggieymae ,
you want to change it for which part ?

Thanks for answering. I decided to use “read more” to control the size. I’ve applied categories to pages with a plug in and I am using a category view to present specific pages together as a grid view. The excerpts were really long and it didn’t seem like evolve theme settings for excerpts made any difference. Maybe I just don’t know what that setting does. Is there something I can read that explains that setting?

this option works if you set the layot on grid mode as it said in theme option

Enter number of characters for Post Title Excerpt. This works only if a grid layout is enabled.

It didn’t work for me. I set it to 40 and there were at least 200. I tried other numbers too. Always the same amount of characters… never changed.

can you post a link of your website ?

Not yet- it isn’t live yet at the request of the person in charge. I am happy with the solution of adding read more but the excerpt setting doesn’t work of me.

Hi there,

Thanks for writing in,

It’s been three weeks and we presume you’ve gone your website online so please provide us the link of your website so we can go into further process to figure out your problem with excerpt settings problem.

Thanks.

Thanks!

As noted… I decided to use “read more” within the posts to control the size. Changing the settings doesn’t change the length.

Before you mention there might be a plugin conflict. This situation was happening before plugins were installed.

The site is learningtowertutor dot com and the category where I wanted to control the size of the post intro is programs.

Hi there,

If you wish to change the length of your read more button I may suggest you to change the line-height of your button as for example you want to make it to 25px so you may add this code into your CSS:

.post-more {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 20px;
  left: 8%;
  text-shadow: 0 1px 2px #111!important;
  padding: 0px 15px;
  cursor: pointer;
  -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
  -moz-border-radius: 3px;
  -border-radius: 3px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  border-width: 1px;
  border-style: solid;
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.29);
  -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.29);
  -box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.29);
  box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset, 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.29);
  color: #fff;
  text-shadow: 0 1px 0px #000;
  font-size: 13px;
  line-height: 25px;
  text-align: center;
}

Hope this helps!
Thanks.

Thank you. I didn’t want to change the CSS of the button but that is good to know. I wanted to change the excerpt length – the settings in evolve didn’t change it. I used the “read more” option inside the post editor.

Hi there,

Please add following code in your child theme functions.php file:

function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
	return 20;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

Please replace the no. as per your desired amount.

Hope this helps!
Thanks.