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Length Can WordPress Post Excerpt Length be reduced?

I am not a WordPress coding expert but I need help from the WordPress experts.

I am using a plugin that creates a Shortcode for posts on the other page. But when i use the shortcode for post, Excerpt is too long but i want to reduce it to 23 words. Can anybody help me how to fix it. Check the URLS.

Screenshot of posts with overflowing excerpt

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The plugin is called Shortcodes Ultimate.

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  1. 0

    Assuming you’re using the Posts widget, you just need to pick a different template or create a custom template. Check out the docs for that here.

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  2. 0

    You can limit the number of text lines with css, add this to style.css (Recommended):

    .su-posts-default-loop .su-post-excerpt p {
    display: -webkit-box;
    -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
    box-orient: vertical;
    -webkit-line-clamp: 2;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    line-clamp: 2;
    overflow: hidden;
}

    Or, you can change the length of the WordPress excerpt by adding this code to functions.php:

    function theme_slug_excerpt_length( $length ) {
        if ( is_admin() ) {
                return $length;
        }
        return 23;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'theme_slug_excerpt_length', 999 );
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