Title: Excerpt
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Excerpt

 *  Resolved [projectmunton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/projectmunton/)
 * (@projectmunton)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-39/)
 * Love the plugin !! very nice work 🙂
 * Just testing it out at the moment … just come across one thing … I have the excerpt
   box checked … but it seems to be taking the first few lines from within the post…
   rather than the excerpt content.
 * Do I need to do something else?
 * Many thanks in advance
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/rp-post-nav/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rp-post-nav/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Rommel Plofino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rplofino/)
 * (@rplofino)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-39/#post-6304616)
 * Hi projectmunton,
 * It’s actually not the default wordpress excerpt. If you want to show more words
   in the excerpt, go to…
 * Dashboard > RP Post Nav > Custom Display > Excerpt Length > Enter the number 
   of excerpt in word(default is 15, minimum of 1)
 * Hope this help you and thanks for appreciation! 😉
 *  Thread Starter [projectmunton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/projectmunton/)
 * (@projectmunton)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-39/#post-6304782)
 * Hi 🙂
 * Many thanks for the quick reply, much appreciated … the problem for me is not
   the length … its the use of shortcodes in my post content
 * I use Visual Composer and the short codes used by it show up before the text 
   in the excerpt used by your plugin in the front end display.
 * I am sure this would be the case for other shortcodes in other scenarios … custom
   galleries etc.
 * I am guessing there will be a number of other users which will come across the
   same.
 * Are there any plans to include the option of the default wordpress excerpt?
 *  Plugin Author [Rommel Plofino](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rplofino/)
 * (@rplofino)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-39/#post-6304814)
 * Hi projectmunton,
 * About the shortcode, I personally suggest that it’s best to hook them before 
   wp_footer or after wp_header for full width display.
 * For automatic hook display, you can choose either Top, Bottom or both. Automatic
   Display hooks inside the content.
 * About the default wordpress excerpt, I personally customized it to avoid conflicts
   in wordpress excerpt. So you can customized the length without affecting the 
   general settings of wordpress excerpt.
 * Hope you understand and thank you for your suggestions. I’ll keep that in mind.
   🙂
 *  Thread Starter [projectmunton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/projectmunton/)
 * (@projectmunton)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-39/#post-6304848)
 * Sure thing 🙂 thanks again for the quick reply.
 * Maybe in the future 😉 nice to keep post list excerpts consistent across the 
   site

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