Title: More Control Over Entry Summary
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# More Control Over Entry Summary

 *  Resolved [rightsidehealth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rightsidehealth/)
 * (@rightsidehealth)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-control-over-entry-summary/)
 * Hey Scott & Community,
    Looks like the “entry summary” div pulls the first X 
   characters / words out of my article and uses that as a preview for non-sticky
   posts. I’m having an issue where my posts have a synopsis, but it tends to be
   shorter than the word limit of entry summary, so it pulls in more than I want
   it to. Any suggestions for how to fix this?
 * An example would be:
 * I want this:
    Title: Blog Post #3 Synopsis: This post is about a cat.
 * and when you click “Blog Post #3” it would take you to the full text. What’s 
   happening now is:
 * Title: Blog Post#3
    Synopsis: This post is about a cat. Cats are cool. They are[..]
 * Hope that helps explain…
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Scott Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsmith/)
 * (@scottsmith)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-control-over-entry-summary/#post-4480713)
 * I’m not sure how you are writing the synopsis. Have you tried using the more 
   tag? [http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More](http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More)
 *  Thread Starter [rightsidehealth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rightsidehealth/)
 * (@rightsidehealth)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-control-over-entry-summary/#post-4480810)
 * Great thanks Scott. Didn’t know about that.
 *  [Scott Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsmith/)
 * (@scottsmith)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-control-over-entry-summary/#post-4480817)
 * Good to hear!

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/more-control-over-entry-summary/#post-4480817)
 * Status: resolved