symmetrical post snippets

Hi. How do I force the size of the frames/rectangles which contain the blog thumbnails and text snippets? I want all the blog thumbnails/snippets to all line up symmetrically.

I asked this before, and got an answer that didn't work:
http://www.inkthemes.com/community/threads/symmetrical-blog-snippets.13331/
Thanks,

 

Hello,

Add these lines in functions.php file as shown in screenshot.

Code:

// for excerpt
function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
        return 50;
    }
    add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

This will solve your issue.

Thanks & Regards
Yogesh Bhade

 

Thanks for your reply; unfortunately, it does not completely fix the problem, although it helps. At "return 50" it showed no difference in my test posts, so I set it to "return 40." You can see that now the first two posts snippets are equal in size with 3 lines of text, but the 3 post has 4 lines of text. (http://www.tiffanynesbitt.com). I tried other return amounts as well, 15, 20, 30, etc., but the posts were still inconsistent.

 

Hi vesity
Unfortunately there is no way to limit the excerpt by line. But you can use some trick.

1. The first thing you need to do is to add this code to your functions.php file

PHP:

function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
        return 40;
    }
    add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

2. Now if you still find a post which has more lines, then edit your post and make you excerpt even shorter with "Insert Read More Tag Button".

 

Got it - excellent - thank you!