Page excerpts find and edit

[Gwyneth]

Hello GP people
My pages have manual excerpts which are displayed in the Content Views Pro plugin. I need to edit the excerpts and am stuck, I can’t find them anywhere when I go into page edit. I use GP Premium with Gutenberg but started out with Total theme, then the excerpts appeared near featured image. Sorry if Im being a bit thick, this should be obvious but…
Gwyneth

[Leo]

Hi there,

Is it in the excerpt metabox?
https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-customize-wordpress-excerpts-no-coding-required/

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[Gwyneth]

The article is about posts not pages. I am trying to find the manual excerpts I added on pages before I changed theme and builder. Looking at the article link you give shows the page in edit mode with screen options as it used to look. When I edit a page now I cannot find screen options or excerpts. I could send you some screen shots but can’t see how to add them. Sorry for being thick but this is driving me nuts!

[Leo]

Sorry WordPress doesn’t allow excerpt on pages by default so I’m not sure where it would be added.

Maybe through a plugin?

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

[Gwyneth]

Ok a bit of googleing, it seems that excerpts on pages used to be standard on wp and was removed https://www.ostraining.com/blog/wordpress/add-excerpts-to-wordpress-pages/ and I need to add some code to restore it. Ooops can’t do code. Will have to find someone to help me.

[Gwyneth]

Oh Leo! I did it! I added the bit of code from the article to Code Snippets plugin and WOW! Excerpts are back on pages. You cannot imagine how overwhelmed and relieved a non-coder feels in doing something like this. Phew!

[Gwyneth]

Resolved

[Leo]

Glad to hear 🙂

Documentation: http://docs.generatepress.com/
Adding CSS: http://docs.generatepress.com/article/adding-css/

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