he Excerpt has two main uses: It replaces the full content in RSS feeds when the option to display summaries is selected in Dashboard › Settings › Reading. Depending on the WordPress theme, it can be displayed in places where quick summaries are preferable to full content: Search results Tag archives Category archives Monthly archives Author archives How to add excerpts to posts To add an excerpt to a post, simply write one in the Excerpt field under the post edit box. An excerpt can be as short or as long as you wish. Usually, given its purpose, a couple of sentences is fine. If adding the excerpt manually, you may use (some) HTML formatting and the tags will not be stripped. Note: As of WordPress version 3.1, some screen options on the Post & Page edit Administration Panels are hidden by default. The Excerpt field is hidden by default if it has not been used befor
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