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Custom Excerpt Function WordPress

By default WordPress excerpts are set to 55 words and there is an  excerpt_length filter   which allows you to change this default value to your length of choice. But what if you wanted a different excerpt length on your post type or somewhere in page you need create custom function for set limit. function get_excerpt($limit) { $excerpt = explode(' ', get_the_excerpt(), $limit); if (count($excerpt)>=$limit) { array_pop($excerpt); $excerpt = implode(" ",$excerpt).'...'; } else { $excerpt = implode(" ",$excerpt); } $excerpt = preg_replace('`[[^]]*]`','',$excerpt); return $excerpt; } function get_content($limit) { $content = explode(' ', get_the_content(), $limit); if (count($content)>=$limit) { array_pop($content); $content = implode(" ",$content).'...'; } else { $content = implode(" ",$content); } $content = preg_replace('/[.+]/','', $content);