Title: Excerpts Not working..
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Excerpts Not working..

 *  [Kerosity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerosity/)
 * (@kerosity)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-not-working/)
 * Hey guys..
 * I have been working on SEO for my blog, and one thing I learned to fix was creating
   excerpts instead of showing the full blog posts.
 * So I downloaded and uploaded and activated Excerpt Editor, I created all my excerpts
   then as I was told I went into the index.php and tried changing the_content to
   the_excerpt.
 * I did this and nothing at all changed on my page.
 * So I figured there was more to it, I went back to the coding and changed every
   time I saw “content” to excerpt.
 * Nothing changed still..
 * I have no clue how to solve this.. I searched google and I’m completely lost..
   lol
 * Is the plug-in broke, are there better ones, or what’s going wrong?
 * -Derek

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-not-working/#post-584754)
 * Excerpts are a built-in feature in WP. Why would you need a plugin for it? What
   is it supposed to do?
 * (and since you use a not free theme the author should give you more precise instructions)
 *  Thread Starter [Kerosity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerosity/)
 * (@kerosity)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-not-working/#post-584766)
 * Well the theme I use is free…
 * And i used a plug-in because I was told it makes it easier.
 * Nothing for the excerpts is working.. I tried using the Options – Reading, and
   using excerpts in there.. No excerpts show.
 * So then I tried plug-ins and nothing is still working regarding the excerpts.
 *  Thread Starter [Kerosity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerosity/)
 * (@kerosity)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-not-working/#post-584775)
 * I have been fooling around and I noticed that if I going into the singlepost.
   php and I change it to be the the_excerpt it deletes the post content, does NOT
   show the excerpt that I wrote out, but does give the custom link to “read full
   article” (which doesn’t help because it’s only on the posts page itself.. it 
   does not work for the index.php)
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-not-working/#post-584807)
 * If it has “sponsor” links – it is not “free”!
 * The excerpt will never work on single post view – which is using the single.php(
   that should be the standard template file name!)
 * The template tag called [the_excerp](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt)
   t will work only in the so-called multipost views: index, archive, category, 
   search.
 * I don’t know what the plugin does, but normally you should just replace the_content
   tag in the template files mentioned above, and it should work.
 *  [Rok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rok/)
 * (@rok)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-not-working/#post-584809)
 * Moshu, is right, just try ‘n’ understand:
 * 1. **excerpts** are being used to display Short posts on index, archives, category,
   search pages.
 * 2. **Single.php** is meant for full post contents view. If you’re going to change**
   single.php** from _content to excerpt_ mode, then, where, you’ve planned to display
   full posts?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-not-working/#post-584810)
 * Re #2. – even if you do that, it will not work… WP is smarter than that 🙂
 *  [Rok](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rok/)
 * (@rok)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts-not-working/#post-584811)
 * Yeah! that’s true.

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