Post Excerpt Problem

Hi. The attached screenshot shows that the post excerpts are not standard. The size of one is bigger and pushing the next row out of alignment.
Thanks.

 

Hello Vesity,

Excerpt function is working fine, you can see that all post have only 20 words in this section.
But in first blog all 20 words are bigger so it is taking 4 lines and other are taking only 3 lines.
Use 40-45 words in Excerpt to fix this problem.

Thanks & Regards
Yogesh Bhade

 

Ok. How do I do that?
More specifically, where is the code that determines the excerpt size? Can I change that to number of characters instead of number of words?

 

Hello Vesity,

Here is the function for excerpt that count character. You can manage this function like put 40 or any no. in place of 20 for showing character in homepage.

Code:

function inktheme_excerpt(){
$excerpt = get_the_content();
$excerpt = strip_shortcodes($excerpt);
$excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt);
$the_str = substr($excerpt, 0, 20);
return $the_str;
}

1. Copy above code and paste it on functions.php file at the end.
2. Paste this code <?php echo inktheme_excerpt(); ?> in index.php file as shown below in screenshot.



It will resolve your issue.

Thanks & Regards
Yogesh Bhade

 

Hi. Thank you for responding. Unfortunately the code does not work, and has messed up the site.
1. Just making the changes to index.php messed up site, so I modified it to <?php echo inkthemes_trim_excerpt(); ?> (instead of what you suggested: <?php echo inktheme_excerpt(); ?> ) and it resolved broken site.
2. I added the code for functions.php, but it broke the site also. Something is wrong with code.
Thanks.

 

Hello,

Your issue have been fixed.
Please visit your site.

Thanks & Regards
Yogesh Bhade

 

Beautiful - thank you!! Where did you put the code for the character count? So I can change it from 20 to another number...

 

Actually, it looks like it's just back to a word count instead of a character count.

 

Hello Vesity,

I think you don't need to do anything in this section, now your site is looking good and it is great.

Thanks & Regards
Yogesh Bhade

 

I'm glad you think so, but the question is how do I get a character count instead of a word count in the excerpt?

 

Hello,

I have added a function in your function.php file ( inktheme_excerpt() ) that is count character, i have set there 100 character for excerpt, you can edit is as your requirement.

Thanks & Regards
Yogesh Bhade

 

Thank you for doing that. It works great!