Calais97

the prices are bookmaker odds. When clicked they are linked to a local redirect address then through to the bookmaker.
I want every $*.** or $** to be linked to one internal address.
There are no custom fields just text articles with odds within
Thanks for the reply

Thanks for the reply. I found some code that did the trick.

<?php
$len = 200; //Number of words to display in excerpt
$newExcerpt = substr($post->post_excerpt, 0, $len); //truncate excerpt according to $len
if(strlen($newExcerpt) < strlen($post->post_excerpt)) {
    $newExcerpt = $newExcerpt."[...]";
}

echo "<p>".$newExcerpt."</p>"; //finally display excerpt
?>

What can I do to add
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
to the code so if there isn’t a manual excerpt it will display the auto excerpt?

Your 2nd code sets the word number for the featured section but shows the full excerpt of the same post in the read more lower excerpt section.

Maybe it would be easier to only have the featured post in the featured section and not anywhere else on the page? Is there a code for this?