[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #33629: Post excerpts have become WAY too long after updating to WP 4.3, please fix.

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#33629: Post excerpts have become WAY too long after updating to WP 4.3, please
fix.
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 Reporter:  MarineKingAizen  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Formatting       |     Version:  4.3
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-testing    |     Focuses:
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Comment (by hughc):

 Just to offer some feedback here, after this issue was reported to me by a
 site owner.

 Their theme (Elegant Theme's Glow) had a custom routine for truncating
 posts, that took a character count as a parameter. This, in turn called
 wp_trim_words(), passing the same character count, which, up until 4.3
 returned what they expected, a string trimmed to the desired character
 length.

 ie

 {{{
 $output = wp_trim_words( $input, $length, '' );
 }}}

 There is no explicit locale set on the site, but under 4.3, the same call
 to wp_trim_words() returns words, not characters. Modifying the theme
 function to use wp_html_excerpt() fixed the issue.

 {{{
 $output = wp_html_excerpt( $input, $length, '' )
 }}}

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