BetaCategory: WordPress - Owner: PaulDavis - Owner ID: 1
Lets you define the lengh of the content show.
Place this within your functions.php file and call like content(50). The number is the amount of words shown.
function content($num) {
$theContent = get_the_content();
$output = preg_replace('/<img[^>]+./','', $theContent);
$limit = $num+1;
$content = explode(' ', $output, $limit);
array_pop($content);
$content = implode(" ",$content)."...";
echo $content;
}