title: How can I limit the word count for get_the_content() on wordpress?
body: <p>I'm trying to limit the string output of get_the_content but I can't find anywhere on the net on how to do this. </p>
  
  <p>Everything I find is regarding the_content(). </p>
  
  <p>I'm not using the_content because I want the string to be unformatted and because for some reason it doesn't seem to work right on my loop for all the posts I have. </p>
  
  <p>Anyways, does anyone no how to make get_the_content return only a specified number of characters of the actual description? I don't want to resort to using the excerpt as that is reserved for some other information I'm using.</p>