Title: [Plugin: Category Posts Widget] optional-excerpt=true not working
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Category Posts Widget] optional-excerpt=true not working

 *  [hunter44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hunter44/)
 * (@hunter44)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-category-posts-widget-optional-excerpttrue-not-working/)
 * Using the short code I want the manually entered excerpts to display. I put in“
   optional-excerpt=true” but the excerpts are all coming from the post content.
 * `http://roadslesstraveled.us/blog/utah-new-page`
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-posts/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/category-posts/)

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 *  Thread Starter [hunter44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hunter44/)
 * (@hunter44)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-category-posts-widget-optional-excerpttrue-not-working/#post-2933771)
 * Resolved — oops, the values like “true” and “false” need quotes around them. 
   Also, the argument names have underscores not hyphens between the words…

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