Mostrar límite de palabras en contenido PHP

<div class="featuredPost2">
				<?php if ($c == 1) { ?><h2 class="titleCatName"><a href="<?php echo get_category_link($theme_options["fea2CatID"]);?>"><?php echo get_cat_name($theme_options["fea2CatID"]); ?></a></h2><?php } ?>
				<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><img src="<?php viva('NpAdvSubFea','3'); ?>" alt="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="alignleft"/></a>
				<h2 class="postTitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?> &raquo;</a></h2>
				[B]<p><?php print string_limit_words(get_the_excerpt(), 35); ?>...</p> [/B]
				<span class="featuredPost2Meta"<?php if ($c == $theme_options["fea2PostCount"]) { ?> style="border:none;"<?php } ?>><?php the_time('F j Y') ?> / <?php comments_popup_link(__($newspaper["noComment"]), __($newspaper['comment1']), __($newspaper['comments']));?> / <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo $newspaper["readMore"]; ?> &raquo;</a></span>
			</div>

$A = preg_replace('|[(.*)](.*)[/(.*)]|sU','',content(50));
echo $A;