Title: Post except length
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Post except length

 *  Resolved [ohkafka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ohkafka/)
 * (@ohkafka)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-except-length/)
 * Hello,
    I am using a free version of your theme. I’ve been trying to change the
   excerpt length but with no results. I looked through all the theme’s php files
   I could think of, and I found some settings in content.php.
 * So I changed the number on this line:
 * <?php thebox_excerpt(500); ?>
 * And some of the excerpts now have 500 characters and some 200. I cant understand
   why. What am I doing wrong?
 * Any help would be much appreciated.

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 *  [Lisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/workingwebsites/)
 * (@workingwebsites)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-except-length/#post-7406473)
 * Can you give a link where the excerpt pages are 500 and others are 200?
 *  [Fabio Rubioglio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabiorubioglio/)
 * (@fabiorubioglio)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-except-length/#post-8238567)
 * hi,
    the last version of the theme (1.4.4) now uses the standard function `the_excerpt()`
   to display the post excerpt. you can use a child theme and then you can modify
   the excerpt using the filters that you can find here [https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_excerpt/](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_excerpt/)
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by [Fabio Rubioglio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabiorubioglio/).

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-except-length/#post-8238567)
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