Allows users to change the excerpt length from the WordPress Reading Settings page.
As of April 2026, Change Excerpt Length is a WordPress length plugin with 500 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 8.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Title Limit for WooCommerce.
Adds an Excerpt Length field setting to the Reading Settings section of your WordPress dashboard. This setting allows you to specify the number of words that you want to display in the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt" rel="external">the_excerpt()</a> function.
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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