adjusting post excerpt length

[doctorproctor]

Greetings -- I'm attempting to edit post excerpt length on Metro Pro child theme. I first added/edited the code at bottom here in this theme's functions.php, and no difference with different numbers of words entered into code. I then poked around in WP's Customize, and noticed that Content Archives has a "Limit content to how many characters?" box; this too however didn't achieve any result.

So, I'm getting nowhere, and would sure appreciate recommendations: I've purged the server and browser cache, checked functions.php and plugins for competition code, etc.; still no change. (Btw, this post seems to mention a similar issue, though I must admit I don't know what the "custom functions box" is.)

Thanks for your help --

Jim P.

https://ds.lclark.edu/envx

[Christoph]

Just want to cover some things first 🙂

You only added this part of the code to the functions.php?

//* Modify the length of post excerpts
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'sp_excerpt_length' );
function sp_excerpt_length( $length ) {
return 50; // pull first 50 words
} 

Make sure you didn't accidentally paste the code inside another function, filter or action.

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[doctorproctor]

Sorry for my belated reply; I didn't receive the followup via email. Yes, I pasted the below at the very bottom of the child theme functions.php. Happy to help further diagnose, and many thanks.

Jim P.

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