Title: Show excerpt before posts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Show excerpt before posts

 *  [alexb_rj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexb_rj/)
 * (@alexb_rj)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-excerpt-before-posts/)
 * Please, there is a way to show the excerpt between the post title and the text,
   like a ‘lead’ in a newspaper?

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 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-excerpt-before-posts/#post-220453)
 * In the single post itself? Or on the front page?
 * Or do you want to “highlight” the first few paragraphs that would be in the “
   excerpt” so people don’t have to read it twice? Or do you want a custom excerpt
   to show and then the article to follow, like the newspapers do?
 * Check this out, maybe: [http://guff.szub.net/the-excerpt-reloaded](http://guff.szub.net/the-excerpt-reloaded)
 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-excerpt-before-posts/#post-220463)
 * If you actually are *using* the excerpt field in posts, just place `the_excerpt()`
   template tag on a line in your theme templates (inxed.php, single.php, etc.) 
   just above where `the_content()` resides. For example, here’s a mod of the default
   theme’s index.php:
 * `<div class="entry">
    <?php the_excerpt(); ?> <?php the_content('Read the rest
   of this entry &raquo;'); ?> </div>
 * If you don’t want it to display when no excerpt exists (if not, it repeats the
   first 120 words or so of a post’s content):
 * `<div class="entry">
    <?php if($post->post_excerpt) the_excerpt(); ?> <?php the_content('
   Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?> </div>

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/show-excerpt-before-posts/#post-220463)
 * Status: not a support question

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