Excerpt length and Read more / Blog post display

Hi Vinnie, I just found your solution and applied it but it seems to not work anymore as you can see on my blog.

I copied your code as is in the Child functions.php but I have still very short excerpts for my blog entries :-(

Any tip for me ?

I have made some changes to get the full word. (not trim the word)

// Excerpt length
function custom_excerpt(){
?>
<script>
// trim sentence by 22 words
	function trimByWord(sentence,wordcount = 22) {
		var result = sentence;
		var resultArray = result.split(" ");
		if(resultArray.length > wordcount){
		resultArray = resultArray.slice(0, wordcount);
		result = resultArray.join(" ") + "...";
		}
		return result;
	}
jQuery(window).load(function(){
    jQuery('.post-entry').each(function() {
     	jQuery(".entry-content ").text(function(index, currentText) {
  
     		return trimByWord(currentText);
		 });
    	jQuery(".entry-title a").text(function(index, currentText) {
   		return trimByWord(currentText,15); // trim title by 15 words
		 });
    });
});
</script>
<?php
}
add_action('wp_head', 'custom_excerpt');

Hope it help you all!
Best

This doesn’t seem to be working for me using the Avia editor, but does if the post uses the default editor.
I saw that under Screen Options I can enable Excerpt while using the Avia Editor and post text in there but it doesn’t cut it all at whatever amount of charters I set using the code above. It instead post the entire thing in from the Excerpt box.

As you know the AVIA editor is way better as I can lay a post how I want better and work in either videos or a gallery way easier.
Ultimately it would be great if the Excerpt could pull right from the AVIA eiditor without having to paste text in a different area, especially when it is the end client doing the post, but I guess a “use as excerpt” option would have to be added to a text block when editing.

Either way is there a way to limit the excerpt length automatically when using AVIA like it does with the default editor?
This will help make it way easier plus keep everything looking more even on the main Blog page.
Here is the blog http://www.itsgreektomemn.com/news/
Right now I just pasted the same text for all 3 posts into the Excerpt editor found under screen options, but this way does not limit the excerpt length.

Limiting or setting the excerpt length differently on when using the “Latest New” widget on a sidebar or footer would be nice also.
Where 200-250 charters might work great on the main blog page, on a side bar I imagine a lot of people would want to set that closer to 100.

Thanks
Jon

Hello
Please, on my website http://www.mairaalgarve.com.br, the blog post element does not display text along with the link read more.
I set the three options and in all displays only read more.

Thanks
Catia

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by catiasilveira.

Thanks Ismael
Sorted out.