Title: Excerpts on blog page
Last modified: July 22, 2019

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# Excerpts on blog page

 *  Resolved [NicoleHolgate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoleholgate/)
 * (@nicoleholgate)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-on-blog-page/)
 * Hi,
 * Excerpts are not showing – only full posts.
 * Can you advise, please?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fexcerpts-on-blog-page%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Theme Author [Prateek Saxena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prtksxna/)
 * (@prtksxna)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-on-blog-page/#post-11754997)
 * Hey [@nicoleholgate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoleholgate/), thanks
   for reporting this issue. You’re referring to this page in particular right —
   [http://nofilter.co.za/articles/](http://nofilter.co.za/articles/)
 * Some quick questions —
    1. Are you using the Gutenberg editor or the old Classic
   editor? 2. Did you add an ‘excerpt’, or did you add a ‘read more’ separator? 
   These will help me recreate the problem on my computer too 😊
 *  Thread Starter [NicoleHolgate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoleholgate/)
 * (@nicoleholgate)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-on-blog-page/#post-11755335)
 * Hi 🙂
 * Gutenberg 🙁 Wish they hadn’t done that!
 * and oh….duh.. hang ten!
 * Okay – read more is working but manual excerpt is not 🙂
 *  Theme Author [Prateek Saxena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prtksxna/)
 * (@prtksxna)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-on-blog-page/#post-11755384)
 * Thanks for checking 👍🏽 It should ideally work with both, I must’ve missed something
   in my code 😅 I’ll fix it and push an update soon (a few days, hope that is alright).
 * In terms of design, do you like the ‘Continue Reading’ buttons, or would you 
   prefer them being simple links? 🤔
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by [Prateek Saxena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prtksxna/).
 *  Theme Author [Prateek Saxena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prtksxna/)
 * (@prtksxna)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-on-blog-page/#post-11755569)
 * So, I did some digging 🤓 and it turns out that a theme isn’t supposed to show`
   the_excerpt` on the main page and stopping the content after the _Read more_ 
   separator is the correct thing to do.
 * But, I can imagine your use-case where you’d want an excerpt that isn’t necessarily
   the first few lines or paragraphs of your post. This means that the fix isn’t
   as straight-forward. Giving the functionality is easy but it’ll have to be a 
   preference that people explicitly switch on—from the Theme Customizer—or some
   other setting, this is possible but will take me a little longer.
 * What I am wondering is if you’re use-case is satisfied just with the _Read more_
   separator… if not I am happy to add the new setting 😄
 *  Thread Starter [NicoleHolgate](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nicoleholgate/)
 * (@nicoleholgate)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-on-blog-page/#post-11756433)
 * All good.
 * I can do a custom template when I have time. It’s perfect for now.
 * Thank you! 🙂
 *  [micdt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micdt/)
 * (@micdt)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-on-blog-page/#post-12045997)
 * Hey Prateek,
 * Zuari is a hot candidate for my blog. But I have the same problem. I’d like to
   stick to using excerpts.
    “Read more” is not an option unfortunately, as this
   would mean that I’d have to edit several hundred posts… I hoped it would be as
   easy as replacing “the_content” with “the_excerpt” in some files, but it is not.
   So it would be great if you could add that option. Cheers! M.

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-on-blog-page/#post-12045997)
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