Title: Submit post excerpt?
Last modified: March 18, 2019

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# Submit post excerpt?

 *  Resolved [Kimball31](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kimball31/)
 * (@kimball31)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-post-excerpt/)
 * Is there a way to add a WP post_excerpt field to a Custom Form?
 * On a whim, I tried these two fields in my Custom Form but neither one got submitted:
   
   A: <input id=”user-submitted-excerpt” name=”user-submitted-excerpt” type=”text”
   value=”” placeholder=”excerpt” required=”” class=”usp-input”>
 * B:
    <input id=”post_excerpt” name=”post_excerpt” type=”text” value=”” placeholder
   =”excerpt” required=”” class=”usp-input”>

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-post-excerpt/#post-11327965)
 * The plugin only processes known fields, so adding new ones won’t really do anything
   other than appear on the form itself. A possible workaround would be to:
 * 1) Use the Custom Form
    2) Enable the Custom Field
 * Then in your theme template, you can display the excerpt by calling the custom
   field (instead of using the_excerpt() or similar).

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 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/submit-post-excerpt/#post-11327965)
 * Status: resolved