Title: My excerpt doesn’t work
Last modified: January 26, 2017

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# My excerpt doesn’t work

 *  [inesm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inesm/)
 * (@inesm)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-excerpt-doesnt-work/)
 * Hi there,
    I cannot make the excerpt work. I’ve already set in Theme Options/
   Excerpt the lenght (nr of words) but, although I wrote a text in the editing 
   box of the post, the site shows the “automatic” excerpt. How could I do? Thank
   for your help. Ines

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 *  Thread Starter [inesm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inesm/)
 * (@inesm)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-excerpt-doesnt-work/#post-8989637)
 * Thank for your support!
    I made experiments about custom-excerpt not properly
   working in your SportsMag theme.
 * First of all I tried to disable all the plugins. Nothing changed.
    After, I reinstalled
   WordPress 4.7.1 from the scratch. Nothing changed. I saw that custom excerpt 
   were in the DB and came to the conclusion that the issue was in the theme.
 * So I started some tests.
    – I changed theme: with default themes twentyfifteen,
   twentysixteen and twentyseventeen the custom excerpt are visible. – With both
   AccessPressMag and SportsMag the custom excerpt: – aren’t visible in home page
   and some other pages with list of articles: for instance the month list of posts,
   the posts with a Tag, the list of post of one category, etc. – **are visible 
   ONLY (for what I tested) in the result of a word-search**
 * I don’t know what do you mean telling that on your side the excerpt are working.
   
   The custom or the default ones? We think that an home page with automatic excerpts
   is awful…

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