{"id":173,"date":"2014-10-17T08:49:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T12:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diananichols.wpengine.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2016-09-22T06:49:56","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T10:49:56","slug":"limit-excerpt-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpwhatnot.com\/limit-excerpt-text\/","title":{"rendered":"Limit Excerpt Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you have layout areas with specific sizes, you need to limit the amount of text that appears. Rather than modify the excerpt size for the whole site, you can use this function:<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-syntax-highlighter\">\n<pre><textarea id=\"mshighlighter\" class=\"mshighlighter\" language=\"php\" name=\"mshighlighter\" >function lt_limit_words($string, $max){\r\n   $words = explode(' ', $string);\r\n   $count = count($words);\r\n   $words = implode(' ', array_slice($words, 0, $max));\r\n\r\n   if($count &gt; $max){\r\n   \/\/ make the 'Read More' match your regular excerpts\r\n      return $words . '&lt;br&gt;&lt;a class=\"moretag\" href=\"'. get_permalink($post-&gt;ID) . 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