Title: Choosing post excerpt
Last modified: September 9, 2016

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# Choosing post excerpt

 *  [whitespirit0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitespirit0/)
 * (@whitespirit0)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/choosing-post-excerpt/)
 * Hello,
 * Thanks for this amazing plugin!
    When we use the ###POSTDESC### keyword in a 
   notification email, the first 50 characters of the post content are used. Would
   it be possible to add an option to use the post_excerpt field instead? Or to 
   add a new keyword ###POSTEXCERPT###? This field is filled in manually and has
   therefore a higher quality content.
 * Thanks,
    Sami

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 *  Thread Starter [whitespirit0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitespirit0/)
 * (@whitespirit0)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/choosing-post-excerpt/#post-8164018)
 * *the first 50 words
 *  Plugin Author [storeapps](https://wordpress.org/support/users/storeapps/)
 * (@storeapps)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/choosing-post-excerpt/#post-8177456)
 * Hi Sami,
 * Not possible as of now. We’ll consider in future.
 *  Thread Starter [whitespirit0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitespirit0/)
 * (@whitespirit0)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/choosing-post-excerpt/#post-9201636)
 * Hello again,
 * It has been almost 9 months since my original request and I don’t see any change
   on this topic.
    Is this improvement still on your roadmap? If so, can you please
   provide an estimate of when this will be implemented? From what I’ve seen in 
   the code (es_cls_sendmail class, es_sendmail function), this is a small improvement
   and it would really help improve the quality of the excerpt send in the email
   notifications.
 * Sami
 *  Plugin Author [Icegram](https://wordpress.org/support/users/icegram/)
 * (@icegram)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/choosing-post-excerpt/#post-9240692)
 * [@whitespirit0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitespirit0/),
 * > Is this improvement still on your roadmap?
 * Yes.
 * > can you please provide an estimate of when this will be implemented?
 * We will let you know once add the same.

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 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/choosing-post-excerpt/#post-9240692)
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