WordPress post excerpt

Last updated on December 15, 2009. Tags:

The post excerpt is a short introduction, description or summary to the post. The main purpose of post excerpt is to give the visitors an idea of what the post is all about should they decide to browse the posts through the category page, archive page, tag page or WordPress search results.

In the edit post interface, the text box for post excerpt is located immediately under the main content's text box. This true from WordPress 2.3.3 up to WordPress 2.7.1. If this is true or false for versions of WordPress earlier than 2.3.3 or later than 2.7.1 (the latest as of the writing of this post), I would appreciate if you notify me using the comment form at the end of this post.

WordPress screenshot showing the post excerpt text box

WordPress post excerpt are called by the PHP code shown below:

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

Most WordPress themes do not readily display the excerpt, probably because most bloggers have no time to summarize or write teasers for each of their posts. Aside from that, using the more quicktag (the one that cuts-off the content with a Read More hyperlink) is much easier. To display the post excerpt of your post in WordPress, visit this article: Displaying post excerpt in your WordPress blog.

Posted by Greten on April 1, 2009 under Definition, WordPress tweaks

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