If you regularly use your WordPress excerpt box, you may find its size a bit restrictive. You can alter it by altering your admin CSS file. It’s a quick fix and I’m here to walk you through it.
*Anywhere you see [WP-INSTALL], it means your WordPress installation directory.
Open the [WP-INSTALL]/wp-admin/wp-admin.css file in a text or HTML editor (make sure to back up first) and use your Find function to find #excerpt (Line ~361).
Change the height: 1.8em; to whatever height you are comfortable with. Knowing my own personal writing style, I changed it to height: 5em;
Save the file and upload it to your [WP-INSTALL]/wp-admin/ folder and you’re done. Login to your WordPress admin panel and click on Write to see the changes.
Dear Teli,
I bought your wonderful ebook
and did everything as you said.
jimvanwyck.com
I was even inspired by your header, as you may notice.
(I rushed mine, will make it more beautiful on the weekend).
Your instructions are simple, powerful,
and undoubtedly effective.
I have a question,
how do you get it to display
the short excerpts?
I must have missed something.
Thanks for the great book
and the great template,
and the outstanding plug ins to
make WordPress profitable.
Jim Van Wyck
# August 22nd, 2005
Hi Jim,
Thank you for the glowing compliments :blush: - The site looks very nice and so does the header (glad I could inspire ya!).
I actually use the WordPress
<!--more-->tag to manually create the break, however, the easiest solution is to use a WordPress plugin called Evermore# August 23rd, 2005
Hey,
Great Info!!
I will bookmark your article for sure for updates on Web Search and Search Engine related information.
Keepup the good work!!
# December 17th, 2005