Title: Using custom post excerpt
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Using custom post excerpt

 *  Resolved [Jonathan Wold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirjonathan/)
 * (@sirjonathan)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the_excerpt/)
 * Hello there! I’m using your widget to display popular posts. I’d like for it 
   to use the content I enter in the_excerpt and it doesn’t appear to do so. Is 
   this by intention? If so, do you have a built-in way around it?

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 *  Thread Starter [Jonathan Wold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sirjonathan/)
 * (@sirjonathan)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the_excerpt/#post-3704657)
 * I temporarily changed line 761 from:
 * `$temp_excerpt = get_the_content();`
 * To:
 * `$temp_excerpt = get_the_excerpt();`

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-the_excerpt/#post-3704657)
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