Title: displaying the extract?
Last modified: December 23, 2016

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# displaying the extract?

 *  [notthatugly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notthatugly/)
 * (@notthatugly)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-the-extract/)
 * I want to use WP for the latest version of my template site, but I need an extra
   field in each entry. I’ve been trying to use php the_extract, as suggested in
   the wiki, but I just get:
    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: the_extract()
   So clearly the_extract doesn’t exist. Is there any way of calling the extract
   in the main template, or is it reserved purely for RSS feeds?

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 *  Thread Starter [notthatugly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notthatugly/)
 * (@notthatugly)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-the-extract/#post-30443)
 * I know it’s possible in MT, because a group blog I post to uses it.
    Anyone?
 *  Thread Starter [notthatugly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/notthatugly/)
 * (@notthatugly)
 * [22 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-the-extract/#post-30450)
 * So I re-checked the wiki, and it actually says the_excerpt (so the_extract was
   never going to work 😉 ).
    oh well, at least nobody else noticed my stupidity.

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