Title: Custom Description/Except
Last modified: January 3, 2019

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# Custom Description/Except

 *  [johnzoro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnzoro/)
 * (@johnzoro)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-description-except/)
 * Lets say you don’t want an excerpt, but you want to just add a description.
 * Like the meta description instead for example.
 * Is there a way to do this?

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 *  Plugin Author [Tom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edge22/)
 * (@edge22)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-description-except/#post-11050346)
 * Hi there,
 * You could turn off the content inside your list settings.
 * Then add your description to a hook:
 *     ```
       add_action( 'wpsp_before_content', function( $settings ) {
           if ( 123 === $settings['list_id'] ) {
               $description = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'your_custom_field', true );
   
               if ( $description {
                   echo $description;
               }
           }
       } );
       ```
   
 * So in the code above, we check the list ID so it only applies the list you need.
   You’ll need to update `123` with the ID of your list.
 * Then it uses a custom field to add content. So you’d need to update `your_custom_field`
   with the name of your custom field that has the description.
 * Hope this helps 🙂

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