custom excerpt length for custom post type

Hi Susanne

Please take a look at this topic https://isabelcastillo.com/different-excerpt-length-for-different-post-types. If that doesn't work for you maybe this topic can shed some light https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/excerpt-length-in-elementor/#post-285109

Hope you get something working and share you code.

That first link is perfect, Jamal :)

Thank you both, Jamal and Tom. Perfect!
First class service as usual.

... actually it looks perfect, but it does not work. Maybe it interferes with the preferences set by the blog plugin? But I need those.. any idea why it would not work? I added the script like so to my functions in the child theme:

function isacustom_excerpt_length($length) {
    global $post;
    if ($post->post_type == 'post')
    return 25;
    else if ($post->post_type == 'portfolio')
    return 15;
    else
    return 25;
    }
    add_filter('excerpt_length', 'isacustom_excerpt_length');

Can you try replacing:

add_filter('excerpt_length', 'isacustom_excerpt_length');

With:

add_filter('excerpt_length', 'isacustom_excerpt_length', 100);

Brilliant! That did it. very exciting. Thanks so much Tom!

You're welcome :)

How would I make this zero? I guess by adding '0'?

I have exactly the same question but in my example, I'd like to remove the excerpt completely.

Thanks!

// CHANGE EXCERPT LENGTH FOR DIFFERENT POST TYPES
 
    function isacustom_excerpt_length($length) {
    global $post;
    if ($post->post_type == ' CUSTOM POST TYPE')
    return 0;
    else if ($post->post_type == 'products')
    return 65;
    else if ($post->post_type == 'testimonial')
    return 75;
    else
    return 80;
    }
    add_filter('excerpt_length', 'isacustom_excerpt_length');

Yup 0 should work: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/excerpt_length/#examples

Have you tried it and it's not working?

Alas, this didn't work. Is is because the syntax is incorrect for my purpose? I am referring to Custom Taxonomy - i.e, categories so perhaps the syntax needs to be tweaked to reflect that?

Thanks for all help!!!

Here is an update!

OK - the functions on this page didn't work for me.

Just to re-clarify - what I am trying to do is REMOVE the excerpts from a Custom Taxonomy Category class I built using Pods.

I discovered this GP Hook which looks ideal to solve my problem:

add_filter( 'excerpt_length','lh_custom_category_excerpt_length', 1000 );
function lh_custom_category_excerpt_length( $length ) 
{
    if ( is_category() ) {
        return 0;
    } 
    return $length;
}

Now, I am using custom taxonomy so I thought I could change the above to this:

if ( is_tax('CUSTOM-NAME') )

Alas, no joy.

Then that got me thinking that the error lies here:

lh_custom_category_excerpt_length

^ That contains 'category' which I think might be wrong because I am trying to remove excerpts from custom taxonomy?

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks!!!

UPDATE

I got it working! :)

This worked for me:

add_filter( 'excerpt_length','lh_custom_taxonomy_excerpt_length', 1000 );
function lh_custom_taxonomy_excerpt_length( $length ) 
{
    if ( is_tax('country') ) {
        return 0;
    } 
    return $length;
}

Does anyone see any issue with this?

Looks good to me :)

The function name doesn't matter. They just need to match.

It could be anything like

add_filter( 'excerpt_length','henry_is_cool', 1000 );
function henry_is_cool( $length ) 
{
    if ( is_tax('country') ) {
        return 0;
    } 
    return $length;
}

Glad you figured out!

Amazing support as ever. Thanks - solved it.