Anyone know a php snippet for showing the first 200 characters of the most recent post?
WordPress has an inbuilt function called the_excerpt() which echoes an excerpt of the post content. By default an excerpt is 55 characters. You can set it to 200 like so: function your_excerpt_length( $length ) { return 200; } add_filter( ‘excerpt_length’, ‘your_excerpt_length’ ); This should go into your theme’s functions.php, ideally. EDIT: To manipulate the excerpt … Read more