WordPress tip : change excerpt length depending of the category

WordPress tip : change excerpt length depending of the category

Do you ever wished to be able to modify the excerpt length based on which category you are on, without modifying your theme files? If yes, I’m pretty sure you’ll be happy with that recipe.

No need to modify your theme files. Simply paste the code into your functions.php file. Don't forget to change the category ID on line 3!

add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');
function my_excerpt_length($length) {
    if(in_category(14)) {
        return 13;
    } else {
        return 60;
    }
}

Thanks to Dave Redfern for contributing to WpRecipes!

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8 Responses

Eric B.

Dec 02 2009 09:50

What a great idea! I don’t have any ideas right now of how to use this, but it’s still pretty cool.

Dave Redfern

Dec 02 2009 11:13

Yah for my tip being published. thanks!

@Eric B. I find it very useful because when i have categories for news, events, blog etc they always need different lengths because they have different designs. This tip is more for when using WordPress as a cms rather than blogging platform.