Page Excerpt

Page excerpt allows you to create hand-crafted summaries of your content, much like you would with a post.

Questions? Leave them in the comments and I’ll get back to you ASAP

8 Responses to “Page Excerpt”

  • Flow Says:
    September 1st, 2009 at 6:09 am

    First off, thanks for this great Plugin!
    But I got one question:
    How can I customize the length of the shown page excerpt without having to force my customer to always test if the length of the excerpt fits the size of the frontend box?
    Altering the general excerpt length by editing the functions.php (as you can see below) doesn’t seem to work.
    [code]
    add_filter('excerpt_length', 'my_excerpt_length');
    function my_excerpt_length($length) {
    return 20; }
    [/code]

    Thanks in advance!

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  • brent Says:
    October 16th, 2009 at 4:20 am

    great plugin – thanks

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  • Netke Says:
    February 13th, 2010 at 7:05 am

    For some reasons on my two WP sites this plugin doesn’t work. Both of them are version 2.9.1 and when I activate plugin, nothing happens. Do I have to configure something else?

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  • Netke Says:
    February 13th, 2010 at 7:09 am

    My bad… I checked out again and it’s working just fine. :)

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  • Amy Says:
    June 23rd, 2010 at 10:43 am

    I can’t seem to get this to work. I installed the plugin and the excerpt box is now showing, but when I enter text in the excerpt…it doesn’t do anything. The whole post still shows. Any idea what the problem could be?

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  • jeremy.massel Says:
    June 23rd, 2010 at 10:46 am

    Amy, are you using WP 3.0? I haven’t tested the excerpt on it yet, so I’m not sure if it works.

    In your theme, are you calling “the_content()” or “the_excerpt()”? You need to call the excerpt method, or else you won’t get that text. Hope that helps!

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  • Amy Says:
    June 24th, 2010 at 11:46 am

    Thank you for replying Jeremy!
    Sorry for my ignorance…but how/where do I call “the_excerpt()”? I am using WP 3.0…but it should be working as I see the excerpt box there, shouldn’t it?

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  • jeremy.massel Says:
    June 24th, 2010 at 4:14 pm

    Amy, it’s likely that your theme isn’t using the_excerpt().

    I’d check out your theme files, index.php, archive.php, and category.php would be a good start. If you can find the_content() and replace it with the_excerpt(), you’ll probably be off to a good start!

    The excerpt box being there won’t help, if WordPress isn’t being told to display it anywhere

    Hope that helps!

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