Reducing excerpt length or limiting number of characters?

[JustJames]

Hi team, I was wondering if there’s a setting on the theme plugin to reduce the maximum characters / words on the excerpt so that the “read more” link shows up.

I’ve tried adding this to the functions.php file from appearences > theme editor with code like this

function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
return 20;
}
add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘custom_excerpt_length’, 999 );

But it didn’t update the excerpt length.

[jade]

Hey James,

Please go to X > Theme Options > Blog > Content then set the Excerpt Length from there.

Hope this helps.