[Resolved] custom excerpt length for custom post type

[Susanne]

Hi Tom, Using GP deluxe again for another site I am working on. I have to tell you this theme is the most beautiful thing to work with and I love the documentation too. Thank you for this amazing work!

I have created a child theme and a custom post type (portfolio) and made the portfolio archive use 3 columns while the blog has one. So far so good.

Now I want the portfolio archive to show an excerpt length of 20 words, while the blog has an excerpt of 40. I could not find the filter/function for that anywhere, but i know it is doable. The customize settings affect the blog only. What would the filter for my portfolio excerpt be?

Thanks in advance!

[Jamal]

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.

[Tom]

That first link is perfect, Jamal 🙂

[Susanne]

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

[Susanne]

… 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');

[Tom]

Can you try replacing:

add_filter('excerpt_length', 'isacustom_excerpt_length');

With:

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

[Susanne]

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

[Tom]

You’re welcome 🙂

[Henry]

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');

[Leo]

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

Have you tried it and it’s not working?

[Henry]

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!!!

[Henry]

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!!!

[Henry]

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?

[Leo]

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!

[Henry]

Amazing support as ever. Thanks – solved it.

[Author]

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