Limit the excerpt length

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June 26, 2014 at 01:04 #20932

shmall
Participant

Hi,

We are using KLEO and would like to know how to limit the post excerpt in Grid view, as when the post are in japanese or chinese it will display a long excerpt.

Thanks,
June 26, 2014 at 13:11 #20978

Catalin
Moderator
Hello,

You need to add in functions.php file from the child theme folder this code:
COPY CODE
```
\[[^\]]*\]
```
where
COPY CODE
```
( $limit = 10 )
```
“10” in the number of words to display.

Thank you,
Catalin

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June 27, 2014 at 01:37 #21062

shmall
Participant

Hi Catalin,

Thanks for the reply.

After I pasted the code to child theme’s functions.php

I got the error under the post

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Unknown modifier ‘\’ on line 24

Hope you would know how to fix it.

best regards,

June 27, 2014 at 11:16 #21080

Catalin
Moderator

Hello,

Please send me FTP access to your child theme and credentials for your WordPress admin panel. Reply as private for security reasons.

Thank you,
Catalin

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December 10, 2014 at 21:08 #38475

exenewyorker
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Tried the code above and it completely removed the excerpt in the archive-porfolio view. Also tried the following in the kleo-child functions.php to change the excerpt to word limit instead of characters and nothing changed:
COPY CODE
```
if ( ! function_exists( 'kleo_excerpt' ) ) {
	function kleo_excerpt( $limit = 15 ) {
        if ( $chars ) {
            $excerpt = explode( ' ', get_the_excerpt(), $limit );
            if ( count( $excerpt ) >= $limit ) {
                array_pop( $excerpt );
                $excerpt = implode( " ", $excerpt ) . '...';
            } else {
                $excerpt = implode( " ", $excerpt ) . '';
            }
            $excerpt = preg_replace( '<code>\[[^\]]*\]</code>', '', $excerpt );
            return '<p>' . $excerpt . '</p>';
        } else {
            $excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
            return '<p>'. substr( $excerpt, 0, $limit ) . ( strlen( $excerpt ) > $limit ? '...' : '' ) . '</p>';
        }
	}
}
```
December 15, 2014 at 16:57 #39161

Abe
Keymaster

@exenewyorker a better option is to edit wp-content/themes/kleo/page-parts/portfolio-masonry.php template and change the function parameters without adding the above code.
You will see something like this at the end of the file
<?php echo kleo_excerpt( 60, false ); ?>

where 60 is the char limit

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January 14, 2016 at 10:27 #98470

dinnap
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Hi.

We have the same problem, but none of the above solutions work.

See our site for the case, or the attached picture.

Regards,
Thomas

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January 14, 2016 at 14:40 #98510

Abe
Keymaster

Hi, you are not using the KLEO Posts shortcode to which this topic is reffering to and you are using Posts Grid shortcode that does not have that option. You can edit the posts and set a custom excerpt in the Excerpt field

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