Title: Manual excerpt using shortcode
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Manual excerpt using shortcode

 *  [EmStuart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emstuart/)
 * (@emstuart)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/manual-excerpt-using-shortcode/)
 * Hi there,
 * I am in the middle of setting up WP Category Post list on my site. I am using
   the short code and was wondering if there was a way to display the manual excerpt
   instead of the standard post excerpt.
 * Many thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-category-posts-list/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-category-posts-list/)

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