Hey, great question! I looked into this (with my friend Katherine) who suggested a plug in to repair this quirky fact that excerpts don’t show HTML.
http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/advanced-excerpt/
This should amp up your excerpt ability. Hope this helps!
Thank you both of you!
I am just wondering if this could be fixed without adding a plugin, since I already have quite a few of them enabled.
Thanks again and looking forward to your reply.
If you do not want to use plugin, then refer to this post.
it walks you through creating multiple excerpts. (I don’t really understand whether you really want it :P)
http://wpden.net/create-multiple-excerpts-wordpress/
but i personally use <!–more–> tag instead of excerpts has it keeps the layout nice and clean and also keeps the post formatting in the way author wanted it.
Yes, you could create it without a plugin in, but then you’d have to create a child theme. And really a plugin is best.
There’s a myth that too many plug ins is not a good deal, but check this out…
http://wpengine.com/2013/08/28/plugins-and-fast-wordpress-sites-its-not-the-number-of-plugins-its-the-quality/
It’s super cool to keep it as a plugin. And probably cleaner…
Thank you all very much for the replies!
<!–more–> doesn’t seem to work for this one, so I will probably go with the suggested plugin, if I can’t find a work around in the next couple of days.
Thank you all 🙂
