Title: retrieve  description / excerpt
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# retrieve description / excerpt

 *  Resolved [duckian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duckian/)
 * (@duckian)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-description-excerpt/)
 * Hi, I’d like to create a customized archive page to display all recipes for a
   particular course (e.g. breakfast)
 * get_the_excerpt() almost works, but it adds “Category: Breakfast” before the 
   excerpt. Is this a bug?
 * I want to display the first 20 words of the description, but get_the_excerpt()
   will output the entire description. Is this normal?
 * In general, how do I retrieve description / excerpt or a recipe?
 * Many thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/recipepress-reloaded/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/recipepress-reloaded/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Jan Koester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dasmaeh/)
 * (@dasmaeh)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-description-excerpt/#post-5506636)
 * Hi,
 * it is intended that get_the_excerpt() does not only display the description text
   of the recipe but also other relevemt inmformation such as course, cuisine, preparation
   time and so on.
 * If you want to display description only you should be able to use $post[‘excerpt’];
 * I’ll put the template tag get_the_description() on the feature wishlist.

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 * Last reply from: [Jan Koester](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dasmaeh/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/retrieve-description-excerpt/#post-5506636)
 * Status: resolved