The documentation, tips, tricks and slices of code here will more than likely continue to develop and grow moving into the future. As people start to issue feedback and ask questions about the theme more answers will start to reveal themselves. I certainly tried to keep things as simple as possible, it is after all a minimal theme so I don’t see a whole lot of reason to heavily modify the look of the theme, but hey what do I know.
That being said I am going to compile a few useful tips on using the theme below. Simple things that popped into my head as I get ready to release this thing. Please feel free to add your questions and comments below and I will do my best to provide timely additions to this documentation.
On the Excerpt
You have probably noticed by now that the excerpt looks a bit different than you average theme, reason being the ‘excerpt_length’ has been filtered. Filter available in post-functions.php So the question is how can I change it or revert it to the original length? Pretty easy as a matter of fact. Open up your custom functions file and do the following:
First to remove the filter and revert to the WordPress default of 55.
remove_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'eighttwenty_excerpt_length' );
And maybe you decided you don’t really like 100 so you would like to try out 150 characters.
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'my_custom_excerpt_length');
function my_custom_excerpt_length() {
$my_value = 75;
return $my_value;
}