Title: Post Previews
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Post Previews

 *  [velocitymicro835](https://wordpress.org/support/users/velocitymicro835/)
 * (@velocitymicro835)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-previews/)
 * Using the Spacious Theme, is there a way to change the character length of the
   post preview that appears on the home page and category pages?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [CincinnatiKid](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cincinnatikid/)
 * (@cincinnatikid)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-previews/#post-4867630)
 * Hi! Try adding this snippet of code to your theme’s functions.php file:
 *     ```
       function short_excerpt($num) {
         $limit = $num+1;
         $excerpt = str_split(get_the_excerpt());
         $length = count($excerpt);
         if ($length>=$num) {
           $excerpt = array_slice( $excerpt, 0, $num);
           $excerpt = implode("",$excerpt)."…";
           echo $excerpt;
         } else {
           the_excerpt();
         }
       }
       ```
   
 * The snippet above includes a new function called `short_excerpt()`. Instead of
   using `<?php the_excerpt() ?>` at lines 46-48 of the Spacious content.php file,
   you can now use the new `short_excerpt()` function and your desired character
   limit. For example, if you want to limit your excerpt to 25 characters the code
   would look like this:
 * `<?php short_excerpt(25); ?>`
 *  Thread Starter [velocitymicro835](https://wordpress.org/support/users/velocitymicro835/)
 * (@velocitymicro835)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-previews/#post-4867667)
 * Perfect thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [velocitymicro835](https://wordpress.org/support/users/velocitymicro835/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-previews/#post-4867667)
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