Title: Excerpt Issues
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Excerpt Issues

 *  [Tokyo54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tokyo54/)
 * (@tokyo54)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-issues-1/)
 * Hi all!
 * I’m having an issue with the excerpt feature. It displays fine on the blog’s 
   homepage, however when a post is viewed, the excerpt appears at the top of the
   screen in plain text – I don’t want this to happen and cant seem to figure out
   why it’s occuring.
 * Example: [http://www.notyouraveragelawyer.com/2010/07/12/nothing-is-impossible-2/](http://www.notyouraveragelawyer.com/2010/07/12/nothing-is-impossible-2/)
 * Any help would be very much appreciated.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-issues-1/#post-1589567)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?
 *  Thread Starter [Tokyo54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tokyo54/)
 * (@tokyo54)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-issues-1/#post-1589575)
 * Thanks for replying esmi 🙂
 * I’ve changed to the basic wordpress theme and the issue doesn’t seem to occur
   which makes me think it IS theme specific. I’m looking at the the_excerpt and
   the_content php tags as the possible source of the problem at the moment.
 * The widgets do not seem to be causing an issue.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-issues-1/#post-1589591)
 * I’d suggest looking in single.php as that seems to be where the problem starts.

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-issues-1/#post-1589591)
 * Status: not resolved

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