From e5440f8156a60916abc5bf378fc17b1e2057991c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: westi <westi@1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:21:05 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add a filter on $excerpt_length. Fixes #7778 props dougal.

git-svn-id: http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/trunk@8958 1a063a9b-81f0-0310-95a4-ce76da25c4cd
---
 wp-includes/formatting.php | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/wp-includes/formatting.php b/wp-includes/formatting.php
index f91c239422..20442146a5 100644
--- a/wp-includes/formatting.php
+++ b/wp-includes/formatting.php
@@ -1324,7 +1324,7 @@ function wp_trim_excerpt($text) {
 		$text = apply_filters('the_content', $text);
 		$text = str_replace(']]>', ']]&gt;', $text);
 		$text = strip_tags($text);
-		$excerpt_length = 55;
+		$excerpt_length = apply_filters('excerpt_length', 55);
 		$words = explode(' ', $text, $excerpt_length + 1);
 		if (count($words) > $excerpt_length) {
 			array_pop($words);