Excerpt Length for Custom Excerpt on Post Grid / Post Slider

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Setting the blog slider to “title, excerpt and read more link” does nothing for shortening the custom excerpt, I’m illustrating that on this page:

http://gaintapdevsite-02.com/resources/case-studies/

The top blog post is set to single author pic, the bottom blog post section is set to grid layout. It shortens on the single layout with pic setting, it doesn’t shorten for the grid layout.

The problem with the custom excerpt not shortening appears to be related specifically to posts displaying on the grid layout.

Hi Ismael,

Thanks but that doesn’t apply to custom excerpts. It only affects the length of the default excerpts.

I’m talking about manually set excerpts set on the page / post at the bottom after turning on excerpts in Screen Options.

This is the code I’m using to shorten custom excerpts that is working for posts unless they are set to post-grid layout

function wp_trim_all_excerpt($text) {
// Creates an excerpt if needed; and shortens the manual excerpt as well
global $post;
  $raw_excerpt = $text;
  if ( '' == $text ) {
    $text = get_the_content('');
    $text = strip_shortcodes( $text );
    $text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
    $text = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $text);
  }
$text = strip_tags($text);
$excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', 80);
$excerpt_more = apply_filters('excerpt_more', ' ' . '[...]');
$text = wp_trim_words( $text, $excerpt_length, $excerpt_more ); //since wp3.3
/*$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
  if (count($words)> $excerpt_length) {
    array_pop($words);
    $text = implode(' ', $words);
    $text = $text . $excerpt_more;
  } else {
    $text = implode(' ', $words);
  }
return $text;*/
return apply_filters('wp_trim_excerpt', $text, $raw_excerpt); //since wp3.3
}
remove_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_excerpt');
add_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'wp_trim_all_excerpt');