Title: Limit post excerpt text with 'posts' shortcode
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Limit post excerpt text with 'posts' shortcode

 *  [rarcher30](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rarcher30/)
 * (@rarcher30)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-post-excerpt-text-with-posts-shortcode/)
 * I’m using the SU plugin on many of my sites and I’ve been quite happy with it.
   Just now I am using it to display a few post excerpts, thumbnail and a ‘read 
   more’ link in a sidebar.
 * Issue is, I want to limit the amount of text shown to something like 10 words
   instead of the 50 or so words that it currently shows.
 * Does anyone know how to do that?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-ultimate/)

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 *  [RavenMediaLLC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravenmediallc/)
 * (@ravenmediallc)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-post-excerpt-text-with-posts-shortcode/#post-6703281)
 * All you have to do is add the excerpt into the excerpt box while writing your
   posts. If you don’t see the excerpt box you can enable it by clicking “Screen
   Options” and checking the excerpt box. Once enabled, paste or type in what you
   want to show, 10 words etc., and the su_posts will display only the excerpt you
   typed in.
 * Hope this helps!
 * Kelly
 *  Thread Starter [rarcher30](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rarcher30/)
 * (@rarcher30)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-post-excerpt-text-with-posts-shortcode/#post-6703282)
 * Thanks for the tip! I totally forgot to go looking under the ‘screen options’.
   
   I ended up writing php code to cut off the amount of text as an override but 
   excerpt will give more control, awesome.
 *  [RavenMediaLLC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravenmediallc/)
 * (@ravenmediallc)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-post-excerpt-text-with-posts-shortcode/#post-6703284)
 * I do the same thing. Forget to look for the easy way…lol
    Glad I could help.
 * Kelly

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## Tags

 * [excerpt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/excerpt/)
 * [posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/posts/)
 * [Word Limit](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/word-limit/)

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 * Last reply from: [RavenMediaLLC](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravenmediallc/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/limit-post-excerpt-text-with-posts-shortcode/#post-6703284)
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