Title: Excerpts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Excerpts

 *  [Michael Heilemann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michael/)
 * (@michael)
 * [23 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts/)
 * What’re they for?

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 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [23 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts/#post-21495)
 * Excerpts allow you to manually craft a short summary of your post if you so choose.
   If you leave it blank, one will be automagically generated just like it was before.
   Right now it’s just used in the RSS feeds, however we plan to return them as 
   search results, category browsing, et cetera. For good examples of manual excerpts
   in action see the following sites;
    [http://diveintomark.org/](http://diveintomark.org/)
   [http://oblivio.com/](http://oblivio.com/) [http://www.zeldman.com/feed/zeldman.xml](http://www.zeldman.com/feed/zeldman.xml)
 *  [seriocomic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seriocomic/)
 * (@seriocomic)
 * [23 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts/#post-21923)
 * Any chance in the next release of having this panel turned off or hidden as an
   option?
    M.
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [23 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts/#post-21929)
 * Absolutely. It’s one of the first things I plan to do with the new options system.
 *  [misterx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/misterx/)
 * (@misterx)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts/#post-22173)
 * how would I go about having only the title/permalink + excerpt of each entry 
   on category/archive/search result pages?
    Thanks. 🙂
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts/#post-22174)
 * How I did it: [http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/PhotoMatt.net](http://wiki.wordpress.org/index.php/PhotoMatt.net)
   
   MtDewVirus also has a good guide.
 *  [Nick Momrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtdewvirus/)
 * (@mtdewvirus)
 * [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts/#post-22175)
 * [http://mtdewvirus.com/wp-hacks/photomatt-archives.txt](http://mtdewvirus.com/wp-hacks/photomatt-archives.txt)
   
   It has a little bit better explanation of where things go.

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 * Last reply from: [Nick Momrik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mtdewvirus/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpts/#post-22175)
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