How to Change the Length of the Default WordPress Excerpt.

Ans The default WordPress excerpt is 55 words long. By modified bit to your functions.php file you can change the length to as you required.Below is the code if we need 60 length.

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function new_excerpt_length($length) {     return 42; } add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');