Title: Excerpt?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Excerpt?

 *  Resolved [rebeccamarla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rebeccamarla/)
 * (@rebeccamarla)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-1-2-2/)
 * hi. another post from me.
 * I am using benevolence theme. my blog is textualife.com/blog
 * My question has to do with ‘excerpting’ posts. WordPress gives me the option 
   to type some stuff in what it calls “excerpt” and then has another section below
   for “post.” I though that the way it would work is that when you type stuff in
   excerpt, it would show up first, and then have a link or something to the “full’
   post… but when i wrote some stuff in “excerpt” and some stuff in “post” the excerpt
   stuff didn’t show up. Meanwhile, the whole “post” section did show up. How does
   this (excerpt) work?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-1-2-2/#post-314595)
 * [the_excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt) works in 
   this way:
    it will appear ONLY in the templates that have the_excerpt tag in 
   them – as opposed to [the_content](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content).
   In “normal” themes the archive.php template for example uses the_excerpt, so 
   on monthly and category archive listings there isn’t the whole post displayed.
   Additional note: In cases like the one I described above WP will show: – either
   the text you typed in the ecerpt field or – the first 120 words if the field 
   is empty
 * You may want also to consider using the <more> quicktag where you want to break
   your text – if it’s too long.
 *  Thread Starter [rebeccamarla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rebeccamarla/)
 * (@rebeccamarla)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-1-2-2/#post-314597)
 * Thanks!!
    The More quicktag is exactly what I wanted but didn’t know it… that
   works! RESOLVED! 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [rebeccamarla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rebeccamarla/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-1-2-2/#post-314597)
 * Status: resolved

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