Grid Layout Excerpt Length

Hi Guys!

First as always, thanks for creating the best WP theme out there in my opinion. :-)

I’ve read the topic at https://kriesi.at/support/topic/default-excerpt-length-for-grid-layout/, and that issue is still a problem now four years later in Enfold version 4.1.2. Excerpts are a good length except for grid layout in which they’re way too short. I tried the following code in the child theme’s functions.php file to no avail.

add_filter('custom_excerpt_length','avia_change_excerpt_length');
function avia_change_excerpt_length()
{
  return 240;
}

I found “$prepare_excerpt = …” on line 447 of …postslider.php, saw that it was using $excerpt_length, and found where $excerpt_length was set earlier in the code. On line 394 it’s being set to only 60, which is roughly the length of the excerpts that are too-short. On line 397 there’s an if() statement that sets it to 240, but for some reason the condition apparently isn’t true when using grid layout. I changed the value on line 394 to 240, and now excepts in grid layout are a good length.

So the question is, is there a way I can set this value in the child theme’s functions.php file so I don’t have to remember to fix this every time Enfold is updated???

Thanks!

Scott