Change the length of CMS latest post widget snippet
 

Is there a way to change the snippet length of a "latest post" widget on the CMS? I'm not talking about articles.

It is the same setting for articles as for the widget - AdminCP > Settings > Options > Content Management > Default Preview Length.

You may be able to edit the widget php page directly if you need to change it only for that widget.

Thank you for your reply but unfortunately changing content management default preview length does nothing at all, still cuts off at approximately 150.

I'm no coder at all, I mainly just improvise via googling, or copying somebody else's code and try to fiddle with it hoping to somehow get what I want :)

Anyway this is not too important so forget it.

Did you make sure to Clear System Cache after you changed it? Otherwise the widget will just stay cached for whatever cache time you have set.

I went to admin > maintenance > clear system cache and also cleared out my browser.

Still stuck at 150. In content management there is a text as quoted "This will be used for preview text length if you do not specify a preview break" prior to the snippet box.

That might be what is causing it to not change? If that is the case, then I'm afraid that I cannot do that as I do not want snippets outside of recent article widget to explode.

Ah yes, that only works if you don't specify a preview break manually in the article.