Title: Custom post summary?
Last modified: January 18, 2019

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# Custom post summary?

 *  Resolved [lightningsymphony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lightningsymphony/)
 * (@lightningsymphony)
 * [7 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-summary/)
 * I’m using The7 theme, which uses WPBakery page builder. Unfortunately, this generates
   a metric ton of shortcodes at the head of each post, so there is a ton of garbage
   under each post title where the excerpt should be.
 * Is there a way to set this summary to use the post excerpt or custom text? Or
   maybe just turn it off altogether?

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 *  Plugin Author [Stefan van den Dungen Gronovius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dungengronovius/)
 * (@dungengronovius)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-summary/#post-11111788)
 * I’m not sure what you’re trying to accomplish?
    Do you want to change the output
   of one of our columns? Or do you want to have a custom column that displays the
   excerpt specifically for your theme?
 * We don’t really offer support for specific themes or create specific columns 
   for them, but we do have a custom field column that can display a lot of custom
   data stored in a post.
 *  Thread Starter [lightningsymphony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lightningsymphony/)
 * (@lightningsymphony)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-summary/#post-11115106)
 * Sorry I wasn’t clear 🙂
 * I just want to suppress the post text altogether. I realize the content of the
   excerpt is completely out of your control, and the junk is completely from the
   theme I’m using.
 * Here’s a screenshot:
    [https://pasteboard.co/HXxOCN6.jpg](https://pasteboard.co/HXxOCN6.jpg)
 * In the pic, the problem text is everything below the post title, before the bottom
   quick menu. It would be really cool to replace that with the Excerpt text that
   is manually entered, but if I can just get rid of it, I’d be happy.
 *  Plugin Author [Stefan van den Dungen Gronovius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dungengronovius/)
 * (@dungengronovius)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-summary/#post-11124992)
 * I see what you mean.
    Unfortunately we don’t alter default columns to change 
   the behavior, instead, we create our own column and enrich them with extra functionality.
 * That said, we have a column that only shows the title without the excerpt and
   we have a column that only shows the excerpt. So you could use both these columns
   to get a cleaner overview page. But I’m not sure if that the excerpt columns 
   will show what you want.
 *  Thread Starter [lightningsymphony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lightningsymphony/)
 * (@lightningsymphony)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-summary/#post-11127855)
 * WOOHOO!!! That’s about 95% of what I want, and 100% of what I need. I didn’t 
   think about “Title Only.” Frankly, I can do without the excerpt, so I’m calling
   this a complete win.
 * What’s really confusing is a few versions back of the WPBakery plugin, there 
   was no shortcode in the excerpt. Now, there’s a ton of formatting shortcode, 
   as you see above. I’m not sure what changed on their side.
 * Thank you! You have preserved my sanity 😀

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## Tags

 * [custom field](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-field/)
 * [excerpt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/excerpt/)
 * [summary](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/summary/)
 * [text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/text/)

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 * Last reply from: [lightningsymphony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lightningsymphony/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-summary/#post-11127855)
 * Status: resolved