Change excerpt length or remove it from grid page in motif theme

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  amitranga · Member · Feb 20, 2014 at 10:34 am

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  How can i change the excerpt length in grid page of motif theme so that it would show only the featured image and title?

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  designsimply · Member · Mar 1, 2014 at 8:35 pm

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  You can’t change the excerpt length, but you can make modifications to the appearance of elements on a page using CSS if you have purchased the Custom Design upgrade.
  https://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/custom-design/

  I reviewed your site and found a grid page at http://amitranga.wordpress.com/machine-learning/

  If your end goal is to make all the boxes in the grid the exact same height, you can adjust each element inside each box so they are all the same heights using custom CSS. If you set container elements to specific heights like this, then if any of the things inside the containers like the titles or the excerpts get too big, then they will fall outside of their containers. To avoid that, you would need to make sure titles are not too long so they fall to more than 2 lines and also make sure the excerpts are short enough so that they stay on 3 lines or less. Or, if you want to accommodate longer titles and excerpts, then just adjust the heights in the CSS example:

  .grid-row .entry-thumbnail {
  	height: 234px;
  }
  .grid-row .entry-title{
  	height: 75px;
  }
  .grid-row .entry-summary {
  	height: 50px;
  }