Title: Content limit
Last modified: May 15, 2019

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# Content limit

 *  Resolved [sarlw03](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarlw03/)
 * (@sarlw03)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-limit/)
 * Is there a way to limit the content length to a certain number when including
   content? I don’t want to have to add excerpts to all posts.

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 *  Thread Starter [sarlw03](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarlw03/)
 * (@sarlw03)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-limit/#post-11532357)
 * Also don’t want to have to add a read more link…if possible, I’d like to pull
   limited amount of content the way Genesis allows for content archives.
 *  Plugin Author [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-limit/#post-11535695)
 * What you’re describing is an excerpt. You don’t have to provide a manual excerpt
   to all posts. If no manual excerpt is provided, WordPress generates one from 
   the first words in the post.
 * [display-posts include_excerpt=”true”]
 * If you’re not happy with your theme’s settings for the word limit or read more
   text, you can use the Display Posts parameters to build a different excerpt.
 * [display-posts include_excerpt=”true” excerpt_length=”20″ excerpt_more=”…Read
   More” excerpt_more_link=”true”]
 * If you don’t want a read more link:
 * [display-posts include_excerpt=”true” excerpt_length=”20″]
 *  Thread Starter [sarlw03](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarlw03/)
 * (@sarlw03)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-limit/#post-11536690)
 * Thank you! For some reason WordPress is not generating the excerpt for me. It
   does work if I manually type in an excerpt on the post.

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 * Last reply from: [sarlw03](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarlw03/)
 * Last activity: [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/content-limit/#post-11536690)
 * Status: resolved