Here’s a nice little bit of code that can come in very handy.
If you’re looking to limit the_excerpt() or get_the_excerpt() by a specific word count, here is a great code snippet that you can throw into functions.php that will do just that.
function my_excerpt_length($text){
return 20;
}
add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, ‘my_excerpt_length’);

function new_excerpt_more($more) {
return ‘…’;
}
add_filter(‘excerpt_more’, ‘new_excerpt_more’);
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WordPress by default will include pages in the search results. More often than not, you will want users to only be able to see posts in the search results, not pages.
To change this default behavior, it’s actually quite easy.
Include the following lines of code in your functions.php file.
function vibeExcludePages($query) {
…