Workaround for text field limitation needed

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Last updated by Jamal 3 years, 6 months ago.

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November 12, 2021 at 1:24 pm #2219403

bernhardJ

Hi T eam,

I want to display a text field with the post excerpt within the single view of my posts. The user interface limits what I can enter as the length- I'd like to set this to, e.g., 999 characters. But as soon as I enter that value, it gets reset to 156 characters. It would be very important for me to get a workaround for this.

Kind regards,

Bernhard

November 14, 2021 at 11:18 am #2220501

Jamal

Hello Bernhard and thank you for contacting the Toolset support.

I wonder if you want to display the manual excerpt field that may be activated per post type, or do you want to generate it from the post content? This would help me provide the best advise.

By default WordPress displays a limit of 55 words per the excerpt, and that may be customized by the theme, a plugin or custom code. https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/excerpt_length/

You may also create your custom shortcode to display a 999 characters/words limit. Check the example codes on this article(method 1) hidden link

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