[Block] Post Excerpt - Increase limit to more than 100 words

[galakhyati]

Quick summary

A user says in Jan 2023, they were able to able to see excerpts with more than 100 words, they shared a link from archive.org which shows excerpts with more than 100 words. They want the changes to be reverted as now we're only limiting to showing 100 words in an excerpt.

We've tried to make them understand why we're limiting to 100 words as that's the expected behavior of excerpts, but they're not happy with the changes. See if there's something we can do to revert the changes made to it.

Ticket: 6337175-zd-woothemes

Steps to reproduce

Check the posts under Query Loop block and it shows the excerpts with 100 words only, not more.

What you expected to happen

They wish to see the excerpts with more than 100 words.

What actually happened

The excerpt only shows max 100 words.

Impact

All

Available workarounds?

Yes, easy to implement

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Simple, Atomic

Logs or notes

The theme used on the site is Hever.

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• 6337175-zen

[cuemarie]

I believe this change was introduced in Core by:

• Post excerpt: Add excerpt length control WordPress/gutenberg#44964

📌 ACTIONS

• Changed request to [Type] Feature request to request increasing the max limit beyond 100 words.
• Feature request kept

[annezazu]

Closing this out as a "won't fix" due to concerns with backwards compatability: WordPress/gutenberg#49612 (comment)