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Create define_excerpt_length.php #9

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// Add this to functions.php

function the_excerpt_max_charlength($charlength) {
$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
$charlength++;
if ( mb_strlen( $excerpt ) > $charlength ) {
$subex = mb_substr( $excerpt, 0, $charlength - 5 );
$exwords = explode( ' ', $subex );
$excut = - ( mb_strlen( $exwords[ count( $exwords ) - 1 ] ) );
if ( $excut < 0 ) {
echo mb_substr( $subex, 0, $excut );
} else {
echo $subex;
}
echo '...';
} else {
echo $excerpt;
}
}

// use the following snippet in any file to define the length of the excerpt for this file

<?php the_excerpt_max_charlength( 250 ); ?>