# Custom Excerpt Length not working for me

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**Category:** WordPress\
**Created:** [November 1, 2023, 10:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-excerpt-length-not-working-for-me/284100 "2023-11-01T10:57:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-excerpt-length-not-working-for-me/284100/2 "2023-11-01T13:14:58Z")

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Are you using the Block editor, or the old Classic editor to publish the post?

Are you able to share a link to the post? That might give some clues about what is going wrong.

What happens if you try manually adding an excerpt to the post:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/c/3/fc3a2c7e861bf4502400dc4f2eba94469c24e235.png)

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