Trying to control length/# of RSS words broadcast, snippet provided not working?

[StacyN]

I have used the tutorial here: https://my.studiopress.com/snippets/post-excerpts to see if we can have our RSS feed excerpts increase in length from the standard 55 words - to 100 words.

My client wants his RSS feed to stream into Aweber to populate an email broadcast daily. He doesn't want the whole story to go out, but he's finding 55 words to be too small.

from here: https://my.studiopress.com/snippets/post-excerpts

Below is the code to modify the length of the post excerpts:

//* Do NOT include the opening php tag shown above. Copy the code shown below.
//* Modify the length of post excerpts
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'sp_excerpt_length' );
function sp_excerpt_length( $length ) {
return 50; // pull first 50 words
}

I have set this up as:

//* Do NOT include the opening php tag shown above. Copy the code shown below.
//* Modify the length of post excerpts
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'sp_excerpt_length' );
function sp_excerpt_length( $length ) {
return 100; // pull first 100 words
}

Nothing changes in the feed which can be seen here on our staging server: http://f9f.6d5.myftpupload.com/feed I've noticed in Firefox, it's showing the standard 55 words.

In Internet Explorer, the whole entire story shows despite the settings of Genesis being set to:
For each article in a feed, show:

__ Full text
X Summary

http://f9f.6d5.myftpupload.com/feed/

[Christoph]

Hi Stacy,

I just tested the snippet on a local website with News Pro and it worked fine.

Are you using any kind of caching on your staging server?

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