[Resolved] Reduce length of excerpt on Category / Archive Pages

[antware]

Hi guys, looking to reduce the excerpt length when list of posts are listed on a category archive page.

This is what I’m currently using in the function.php file, but it’s having no effect:

function archive_custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
	if ( is_category() ) {
		return 25;
	}
	 return $length;
	}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'archive_custom_excerpt_length', 99 );

Any ideas would be great, thanks.

[Leo]

Hi there,

The code looks good to me. Not sure why it isn’t working.

Can you give this a shot instead?
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/excerpt_length/

[antware]

Thanks Leo, it seemed I missed something, and it was in fact working.

Any idea how to increase or reduce the number of posts that would appear on a Category Archive page, currently set to 10, I only want 9 as I have a 3 column grid?

[Leo]

Any chance you can open a new topic for the separate question?

I’ll mark this as resolved.

Thanks 🙂

[Author]

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