Hi Jeff
You add the text inside excerpt. If you add text inside excerpt then it will display the excerpt text. If excerpt is blank then it will display from the editor.
By default, excerpt length is set to 55 words. To change excerpt length to 20 words using excerpt_length filter, add the following code to functions.php file in your theme:
e.g:- `function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
return 20;
}
add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘custom_excerpt_length’, 999 );`
But you need to make the child theme before using it. Because while updating our new version all your setting would be lost.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
If it is really hard to fix it then we have this facility in our attitude-pro version.
Regards
Sunil
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