Chapter Blog settings - general
Excerpt length
When you use the MTEntryExcerpt tag in your templates and you have not defined an excerpt for your entry, one is auto-generated for you by the system using the first words of your entry body after applying the entry's specified text formatting filter and removing all HTML.
Using this setting, you may specify how many words are included in that auto-generated excerpt. The default is 40.
This setting does not apply if you have specified an excerpt for your entry.
Important: Please note that for historical reasons, this setting also does not apply to the output of the MTEntryExcerpt tag in the search results template. To control that setting, you must use the ExcerptWords configuration directive.
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