[Resolved] I need to set limit for wp-post-body length

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[Rostislav Avtodiychuk]

Tell us what you are trying to do? I need to set wp-post-body limit.
I see https://toolset.com/forums/topic/conditional-based-on-wpv-post-body-height/ but i don't understend how i can to use this shortcode?
Something like this?
[wpv-post-body view_template="None" postbodylength="50"]
Thanks for help

[Nigel]

Hi there

Can you clarify what you want to achieve?

You want to output the post body, but only a certain number of characters, for example?

In this case, why not just use the post excerpt?

https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/views-shortcodes/#wpv-post-excerpt

[Rostislav Avtodiychuk]

Thanks for the answer. I considered several options so that I could crop the output of the archives of my custom post types.
In the end I decided to use the excerpt (wpv-post-excerpt) - thats ok!

If you can easily tell me how i can to use shortcode correctly?

[Nigel]

You mean how to use the post excerpt shortcode?

You would typically use the shortcode in the output of a View or a custom archive listing posts, and simply insert the shortcode (manually, by typing it, or using the Fields and Views button) in the Loop Output section (or in a connected content template).

By default the wpv-post-excerpt shortcode will limit the length to 252 characters, but you can use the shortcode attributes to, for example, set a limit of 50 words, like so:

[wpv-post-excerpt length="50" count="word"]

Post excerpts are a built-in WordPress feature you can read more about here: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_excerpt/

[Rostislav Avtodiychuk]

Thank you for quality help!