Hello, can anyone provide more information on how to use custom excerpts to bypass the 300 word limit? The Ghost docs says the following.
If the post’s custom_excerpt property is set, then the helper will always output the custom_excerpt content ignoring the words & characters attributes.
How exactly do I set the ‘custom_excerpt’ property?
I also found this post on the Ghost blog, but the two images in this post appear to be the same image unless I am missing something - Custom Excerpts
Hi, you are at the right direction. Don’t be confused by 2 image. Add your custom text in that excerpt box. That is the place to add custom excerpt for your post.
If you add custom excerpt in the previously mentioned box then there will not be any word limit.
Full custom excerpt will be shown.
If you do not add any custom excerpt then the world limit will take effect.
You can use words or characters options for your intended word length or characters length. ( you have to customize in your theme).
Thanks for the screenshot. Yes, at this moment the custom excerpt is limited to 300 character long.
Sorry, previously I was talking about character count within the theme.
At this moment you can not increase this 300 char limit without hacking the ghost core.
May be someone from ghost insider can help you more.
Hi! I just ran into the same limitation. It would also make more sense to me if there was a word limit (which you can also already limit with the helper) instead of the 300 character limit. Have you tried solving this yet?
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