Title: Post excerpts
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Post excerpts

 *  Resolved [Perkin5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perkin5/)
 * (@perkin5)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-excerpts-9/)
 * I am using the HTML5 Blank theme.
 * When I add a new post, all text formatting is stripped from the excerpt which
   is not what I want. So how do I prevent that?
 * If not possible, I would like to show full posts with text formatting. From web
   sources I understand that I should replace the_excerpt with the_content but I
   can’t find that in this theme.
 * I’ve tried going to Settings->Reading->Show full text in a feed but it doesn’t
   work.

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 *  [wphigh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wphigh/)
 * (@wphigh)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-excerpts-9/#post-4857792)
 * What is the theme download link?
 *  Thread Starter [Perkin5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perkin5/)
 * (@perkin5)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-excerpts-9/#post-4857800)
 * [http://html5blank.com/](http://html5blank.com/)
 *  [wphigh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wphigh/)
 * (@wphigh)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-excerpts-9/#post-4857826)
 * See: [https://github.com/toddmotto/html5blank/blob/master/loop.php](https://github.com/toddmotto/html5blank/blob/master/loop.php)
 * Line 26: `<?php html5wp_excerpt('html5wp_index'); // Build your custom callback
   length in functions.php ?>`
 * change to:
    `<?php the_content(); ?>`
 *  Thread Starter [Perkin5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perkin5/)
 * (@perkin5)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-excerpts-9/#post-4857856)
 * Worked like a charm – thanks so much!
 * I’m not confident enough about PHP to have worked that out for myself.
 *  [wphigh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wphigh/)
 * (@wphigh)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-excerpts-9/#post-4857934)
 * function html5wp_excerpt() is used to display post excerpt. So replace it width
   the_content(), or access functions.php line:234 to modify html5wp_excerpt().
   
   see: [https://github.com/toddmotto/html5blank/blob/master/functions.php](https://github.com/toddmotto/html5blank/blob/master/functions.php)
 *  Thread Starter [Perkin5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perkin5/)
 * (@perkin5)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-excerpts-9/#post-4857956)
 * Got it! Thanks so much.

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## Tags

 * [excerpt](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/excerpt/)
 * [formatting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/formatting/)
 * [post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post/)
 * [text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/text/)

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 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Perkin5](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perkin5/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-excerpts-9/#post-4857956)
 * Status: resolved

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