# Limit excerpt to word length

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/limit-excerpt-to-word-length/2266
**Category:** uncategorized
**Created:** 2014-09-15T21:42:52Z
**Posts:** 2

## Post 1 by @benlobovits — 2014-09-15T21:42:53Z

I see in extras.php there is a function to clean up the\_excerpt().

Is there a hook or a way to return the excerpt to a given character count?

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## Post 2 by @ben — 2014-09-15T23:29:18Z

Yup - this isn’t Roots specific. See [http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin\_API/Filter\_Reference/excerpt\_length](http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/excerpt_length)