Excerpt in Twenty Seventeen

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• This reply was modified 8 years ago by t-p.

you are linking to the full post which would not show the excerpt in any case –

what exatly are you referring to:

– the excerpt field while editing the post?
== you can make that visible via ‘screen options’ – tick ‘excerpt’.

– any excerpt showing in the index or archive pages?
== the theme is designed to show the full post in these cases; you would need to edit theme templates (in a child theme) to change that behaviour.

can you explain in more detail where you see the problem with ‘the excerpt field is not visualized’?

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Michael. Reason: typing error

Usually themes show excerpt. Doesn’t Twenty Seventeen show excerpt?
eg twenty sixteen show it under the title.

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• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Fabrizio Pivari.

there is really nothing what themes ‘usually‘ do or not do – it all depends on how the individual theme is programmed.

Twenty Seventeen only seems to show excerpts in the search results.

So the question is different:
why doesn’t Twenty Seventeen use excerpt in the post like subtitle/abstract?
I think it’s also important for SEO reason.

Because it doesn’t. It’s not important for SEO on the per-post page, and this is a design choice, not an alpha/beta bug.

Sorry, but you don’t have to like everything the default theme does ?? That’s why we have 1200 others for you to choose from.

I can understand your point of view.
My point of view is different: I’d like the default wp theme uses all the deault wp features.

Your point of view is accurate and correct. You don’t understand how the default features apply, however.

The use of an excerpt as a subtitle or abstract for a post is not ‘default.’ It’s optional.

Just had the same problem and all that i can say is: I miss this feature, too. All i can say is, that an excerpt has some kind of meaning for SEO, because you are avoiding double-content. Thats why I heard, maybe thats old news.

So, for everyone else missing the excerpt, add it like this:
edit (for example) /wp-content/themes/twentyseventeen-child/template-parts/post/content.php

(Depending on your setup, you may need to edit another php-file)

Add the following, so the startpage will show an excerpt while the post itsself has the complete content:

if ( is_single() ) :
the_content();
else :
the_excerpt();
endif;

Because just ticking the option in the admin-area didn’t work.

cheers

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by nicky.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by nicky.