Ahmad Awais
I don’t really remember since how long I have had been using WordPress excerpts inside themes but I think almost all themes make use of the_excerpt() function. In relation to the excerpts, a theme developer needs certain functions like
To add a custom read more button you can add following function to your theme’s function.php
Default length of WordPress excerpt is 55 words. You can use following funtion in functions.php to reduce it down to 15 or any custom value.
What if you need dynamic excerpt length? I mean if you are building a complex WordPress theme, you find yourself in a condition where you need length of excerpts to be different for different pages or for different custom post types. I used to have a very lengthy function for this particular purpose whereas I discovered wp_trim_words() a handy function to trim down the content to as many words as you want to with custom more symbol. Here is how I use it.
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