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short text on the blog page

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cedbabo
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Hi
when i click on my blog menu, i only have 5 lines for the preview of my latest news : http://cedricbabouche.com/?page_id=13
Do you know to have twice the number of lines?

thanks

Posted 1 year ago #
Chris Beard
Hey,

you can open up your functions.php file and add this to the bottom:
```
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');
function my_excerpt_length($length) {
return 20; }
```
You can change "20" to any value you'd like, this'll change the excerpt length.

(A nice extra:)
If you'd like to link the dots ( [...] ) you can also add this to the functions.php
```
function new_excerpt_more($more) {
       global $post;
	return ' <a href="'. get_permalink($post->ID) . '">[...]</a>';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');
```
Posted 1 year ago #
cedbabo
Member

I'm sorry Chris but i'm a newbie. Can you explain me how, where and with which software will i do that?
Do i only have to paste this at the end?

Posted 1 year ago #
Chris Beard

In your theme folder you'll find functions.php (so you've downloaded the theme - Flashlight>functions.php). In this file you can paste the previously mentioned code at the bottom. You can use any program to do this from notepad to Coda or Dreamweaver or many other alternatives - as long as you overwrite the file again as .php

Posted 1 year ago #

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