[info110]

The service widget appears to pull the content from the associated page for each of the services that is displayed on the home page.

How can I have it display only a set amount (much less than the max amount it currently displays) or something completely different?

Basically I want all of the Read More links at the bottom of each of the services to line up with each other.

[Theme Horse Support Team]

Hi info110,

You need to increase the excerpt length for it. Goto theme folder-> inc -> functions-> functions.php on line no 146, there you can increase/decrease the excerpt length.(Currently its 50)

Before making any changes in the code first of all create a child theme and then customize the code. So that while updating to new version your customized code will be safe.

Thank you!

[info110]

So I see excerpt length is words.

Any chance you can tell me how to change it to characters or at least what/where the function that is defining a word and I could hack on it to figure out how to change to character.

[Theme Horse Support Team]

Hi info110,

If you like to change the character not word then it needs code customisation. You can use similar this way.

<?php $service_excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
$service_content = substr($service_content, 0, 100);
echo $service_content; ?>

This above code will only display upto 100/ less characters including space too. Now you can change the value of 100 what ever you want.

Inside the theme folder -> inc -> widgets on line no 286 you will find this code <?php the_excerpt(); ?> Here you need to add the above code.

If you are still unable to fix it then you need to hire a developer and also before making any changes in the code first of all create a child theme and then customize the code. So that while updating to new version your customized code will be safe.

Thank you!

[info110]

When I replace the above code with the suggested code, nothing is displayed.

Any suggestions?

[Theme Horse Support Team]

Hi info110,

Oh Sorry! just add this below code

<?php $service_excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
       $service_content = substr($service_excerpt, 0, 10);
       echo $service_content; 
?>

Hope this may help you
Thank you!

[info110]

Still didn’t work.

Thanks for trying, but I managed to get the effect by just reducing the work count for excerpt length and didn’t need to switch to characters.

[Theme Horse Support Team]

Hi info110,

We have tried with the above code at our local environment and it’s working fine there. Are you trying at the core theme file or at child theme?

Thank you!

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