Title: control excerpt length
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# control excerpt length

 *  [Glenn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rglennnall/)
 * (@rglennnall)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/control-excerpt-length/)
 * anhy means of controlling the # words in the excerpt within the slider itself?
   i can do it in the code, but an update will overwrite it, of course.
 * is this possible? if not, is it possible to add a new function in functions.php
   to handle this?
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 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/control-excerpt-length/)
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