Hi,
you can open the screen options (top right in your edit post page) and enable the ‘excerpt’
Thank you for your reply but I am looking for a way to dynamically add an excerpt of all post from a category in the content area. The widget from the screen tab is more of a specific excerpt.
You will need to edit your theme and add some files.
1.create a child theme
2.copy your archive.php file from your parent theme to your child theme
3.copy the folder ‘template-parts’ from your parent theme to your child theme
4.rename ‘archive.php’ to ‘category-test.php’
5.open the ‘category-test.php’ and find this line
get_template_part( 'template-parts/content', get_post_format() );
and change it to
get_template_part( 'template-parts/custom-content', get_post_format() );
6.go to your child theme ‘template-parts’ folder and copy paste the file ‘content.php’, rename it to ‘custom-content.php’
7.edit it and find this code
the_content( sprintf(
__( 'Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "%s"</span>', 'twentysixteen' ),
get_the_title()
) );
comment it like this
/*the_content( sprintf(
__( 'Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "%s"</span>', 'twentysixteen' ),
get_the_title()
) );
*/
and add below it this
the_excerpt();
6.save : )
7.the test part in the filename ‘category-test’ should be the category you
want to target
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/taxonomy-templates/
