`{{excerpt}}` helper ignores `words` parameter beyond ~70 words

[jpeacock29]

Path: /themes/helpers/data/excerpt

Description

The {{excerpt}} Handlebars helper appears to have an undocumented hard cap of approximately 70 words. Passing words="500" or any
higher value does not increase the output beyond this limit.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a post with 500+ words of body content
2. In a theme template, use {{excerpt words="500"}}
3. Observe that the output is approximately ~70 words

Expected behavior

{{excerpt words="500"}} should return up to 500 words of stripped text from the post body.

Actual behavior

Output is capped at ~70 words regardless of the words parameter value. The text also cuts off mid-word, suggesting the limit may
actually be character-based (~500 characters) rather than word-based.

Workaround

Use {{content}} instead, wrapped in a container with overflow: hidden and CSS to neutralize HTML formatting. This returns the
full post body as HTML.