Title: Coding Question – "The Excerpt"
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Coding Question – "The Excerpt"

 *  Resolved [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-the-excerpt/)
 * I have a custom RSS feed that is showing the whole content of my posts. I want
   to change it to showing only the excerpt… the relavent piece of code looks like
   this:
 * ‘<description><?php echo ‘<![CDATA[‘.apply_filters(‘the_content’, $post->post_content).’
 * ‘.’]]>’; ?></description>’
 * I’m assuming I just need to change “post_conent” to something like “the_excerpt”
   but no combination of words seems to work.
 * Does anyone know the right code?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [anjali.n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anjalin-1/)
 * (@anjalin-1)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-the-excerpt/#post-2110906)
 * [hi ](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-the-excerpt/[signature moderated]?output_format=md)
   
   in place of the_content place the_excerpt and in place of $post->post_content
   place $post->post_excerpt.
 * I thinkafter changing like this it will display the post except instead of post
   content
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-the-excerpt/#post-2110949)
 * `$post->post_excerpt` will only return the hand-written excerpt;
 * `get_the_excerpt()` might work
 *  Thread Starter [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coding-question-the-excerpt/#post-2111118)
 * Solid, thanks for the help!

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