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WordPress Limit Post Excerpt By Characters Without Truncation

Ayumilove.net homepage post excerpt had some makeover to reduce text bloat. Post excerpt is a snippet of your post first few sentences. The excerpt is Twitter-styled by limiting it to 240 characters. Below is the code I used in my theme functions.php which might be useful for your WordPress-based site.

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// [AYUMILOVE_START] Twitter Style Post Excerpt
function get_twitter_style_excerpt(){
$excerpt = get_the_content();
$excerpt = preg_replace(" (\[.*?\])",'',$excerpt);
$excerpt = strip_shortcodes($excerpt);
$excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt);
$excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, 240);
$excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, strripos($excerpt, " "));
$excerpt = trim(preg_replace( '/\s+/', ' ', $excerpt));
$excerpt = $excerpt . '...';
return $excerpt;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'get_twitter_style_excerpt');
// [AYUMILOVE_END] Twitter Style Post Excerpt

Customizing Excerpt Notes
1. The code above does not truncate last word if meets max characters. Example:
1a. Original Statement = The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1b. Truncated Statement = The quick brown fox jumps ove …
1c. Truncation fix = The quick brown fox jumps …
2. Change character length 240 to the length you are comfortable for your excerpt.
3. If the excerpt is not styled with css, add the paragraph tags < p >
4. Implementing this code into Theme functions.php avoids installing plugin.

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