How to shorten amount of text in featured box

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  sfascha · Member · Jan 14, 2015 at 7:18 pm

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  I have the Pictorico theme installed and have activated the featured content widget. Is there a way for me to shorten how many lines of the text post is showing up on the homepage? Right now it seems to load 5 lines of text, but I would like it to only show 2 or 3. Thank you!

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  staff-happychia · Staff · Jan 14, 2015 at 7:56 pm

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  Did you try using shorter post excerpts?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 15, 2015 at 6:11 pm

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  Excerpts show a default 55 words (as defined in the WordPress core software), but you can override that in the featured posts in Pictorico by creating your own custom excerpt as explained here.

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  sfascha · Member · Jan 16, 2015 at 5:42 am

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  Thank you SacredPath! I will check that out. I really appreciate the help :)

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  sfascha · Member · Jan 16, 2015 at 5:44 am

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  chaitanyamsv, I didn’t put anything in the excerpt box so that may make a difference. I’ll try that out and see what happens. Thank you!

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  sfascha · Member · Jan 16, 2015 at 10:48 pm

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  Thank you both, it worked :)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 17, 2015 at 2:04 pm

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  You are welcome.