Easy Excerpt Mods on WordPress 2.9

WordPress 2.9 brings some new features, one of new features is Easy Excerpt Mods via little bit coding on our functions.php theme. Here some tricks how to change excerpt length via this tricks

Open your functions.php and add this code

function new_excerpt_length($length) {
	return 20;
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');

This code above will be reduce excerpt length become 20, on this code below, we will try to change excerpt more, the default is … with this tricks we can made it different style, put this code below the code before on your functions.php

function new_excerpt_more($more) {
	return '[.....]';
}
add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');

This code I got from bavotasan