[fivestarswag]

fivestarswag

#5074

Is there anyway too limit the amount of characters in excerpt for the slider?

Thanks for being so helpful…I’m almost ready to launch!!!

[Kenneth John Odle]

Kenneth John Odle

#30582

Yes, but you need a child theme.

Basically, you set a global excerpt length, and then you set a slider excerpt length. (Untested, so I’m not sure if it will work.)

Are you using a child theme, or do you feel up to implementing one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#30583

Throw this in your child theme’s functions.php file

function graphene_custom_slider_excerpt_length(){

graphene_set_excerpt_length( 30 );

}

add_action( 'graphene_before_slider', 'graphene_custom_slider_excerpt_length' );

Change 30 to whatever number (words).

If your child theme functions.php file is empty, add <?php at the beginning of the code and close it with ?>

[fivestarswag]

fivestarswag

#30584

unfortunately I’m a beginner so I dont really understand the terminology….i looked in my editor but didn’t see anything about a child theme

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#30585

Prasanna has a great tutorial for child themes:

http://www.prasannasp.net/graphene-child-theme-template/