Question

I have the following piece of code which outputs a long article:

<?php the_content(); ?>

I am trying to show only an excerpt of the article (the first 29 words), strip out the HTML and add a “…more” at the end.

<?php substr(the_content, 29) ?>

I have tried this but it has no effect on the length.

Any help? Thanks

Answer 1

What you need is the_excerpt

<?php the_excerpt(); ?> //and you could check the doc how to set the length.