Title: overwriting excerpts
Last modified: March 11, 2019

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# overwriting excerpts

 *  Resolved [opalescent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opalescent/)
 * (@opalescent)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwriting-excerpts/)
 * Excerpts for blog posts are overwritten with:
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 * Apart from going through all of my posts and creating excerpts for them, is there
   a way for my excerpts to show on blog listing pages? I’m using the Boo theme 
   by Themerella, built on WPBakery/VisualComposer.
 * Thanks very much, great plugin, I really love it!
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Foverwriting-excerpts%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Support [Blaz K.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blazk/)
 * (@blazk)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwriting-excerpts/#post-11302386)
 * Hi [@opalescent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opalescent/),
 * are you adding the rating widget to posts via shortcode or automatically in plugin
   settings? I also see the rating widget on the front page which I guess is not
   intentional. Users did encounter similar issues in the past when using various“
   page builder” plugins. In such cases I recommend adding the rating widget directly
   to the post template with the following line of code:
 *     ```
       <?php echo do_shortcode('[ratemypost]'); ?>
       ```
   
 * You can read more about post templates here [https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/post-template-files/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/post-template-files/)
   and here [https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-files/](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/basics/template-files/)
 * I know that this is not ideal, but it is very hard to ensure plugin compatibility
   with all WordPress themes. Since these page builder plugins are usually not free,
   it’s also hard for me test the compatibility.
 * Let me know if you need further assistance.
 * Blaz
 *  Thread Starter [opalescent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opalescent/)
 * (@opalescent)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwriting-excerpts/#post-11303175)
 * Ok, this is something new for me but I’m up for figuring it out! I understand
   what you’re saying about using the plugin, and I’m happy to put in the shortcode
   to the template… just need some guidance.
 * I’ve located a file called template.php in wp-includes, is this what I’d need?
   None of the other file types are listed, but they are all within this file. I’ve
   never altered a php file so not sure what to do. Could you point me in the direction?
   Do you need me to copy some code here to show you what I’m looking at?
 * Thanks so much for the help.
 *  Plugin Support [Blaz K.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blazk/)
 * (@blazk)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwriting-excerpts/#post-11304297)
 * [@opalescent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opalescent/) please do not 
   edit anything in wp-includes as this is WordPress core! I don’t know the structure
   of your theme and thus I unfortunately can’t say which file exactly you should
   edit. Maybe you could ask the author of the theme where to put the snippet so
   that the shortcode will be shown in every post at the bottom? Ideally you would
   also create a child theme, as otherwise these changes will be deleted when you
   update the theme.
 * Blaz
 *  Thread Starter [opalescent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opalescent/)
 * (@opalescent)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwriting-excerpts/#post-11305444)
 * lol, ok, I’ll contact them. I am using a child theme but there’s only function.
   php and style.css under that folder. I’ll need further assistance on this, so
   I’ll contact them with the info you provided. Many thanks!
 *  Plugin Support [Blaz K.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blazk/)
 * (@blazk)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwriting-excerpts/#post-11312919)
 * You are welcome, I hope you managed to solve the issue! 🙂
 * Blaz
 *  Thread Starter [opalescent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opalescent/)
 * (@opalescent)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwriting-excerpts/#post-11330399)
 * Thanks, Blaz, I did! 😀
    Found the right file under Appearance/Edit. Feeling 
   a lot more confident after that! I love the plugin and have seen many people 
   using it already. Thanks for everything.

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 * Last reply from: [opalescent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opalescent/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overwriting-excerpts/#post-11330399)
 * Status: resolved