Make shift the_excerpt replacement for Wordpress & Pods templating

Excerpt that strips all the bad stuff, returns just a string

function trim_content( $post_content, $length ) {

	if (strlen($post_content) > $length) { // check to make sure your content is longer than what you want to display
		$post_content = wordwrap($post_content, $length, "<br /><br />"); // Set br's to trim the content to the nearest whole word
		$post_content = substr($post_content, 0, strpos($post_content, "<br /><br />")); // trim content
		$post_content = strip_shortcodes( $post_content ); // strip shortcodes for wordpress content with shortcodes

		return $post_content;
	}

}