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How to Change Default Wordpress Excerpt Length

Default wordpress excerpt length is 55 words. It’s easy to change the default excerpt length in wordpress in less than 2 minutes to desired length. I made changes to wordpress 2.9.2 code.

Login into Directory where wordpress is installed
Open the file Directory > wp-includes > formatting,php
Search for 55 or $excerpt_length = apply_filters(‘excerpt_length’, 55);
Change the value 55 [...]

9 Things To Do Before Ugrading Wordpress

If you are planning to upgrade wordpress to latest release, do the following

Read Worpdress Support forums to see any upgrade problems
Backup Entire Database
Check for Minimum Requirements ( MySQL, PHP)
Check if all installed plugins supports the latest version of wordpress.
Deactivate all the plugins
Know how to revert to previous wordpress version, if upgrade were to fail.
Test the [...]

Wordpress Password – Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid

If you run into Password Recovery Error with Wordpress Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid, do the following

To correct this, fire up phpmyadmin ( it will be usually mysql.yoursite.com) in Cpanel,
click on the database name,

Select “wp_users” Table

Click on Brose Icon ( first icon)

Click on the Row to edit the password
Click [...]

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