Title: HTML notification emails – using custom excerpt
Last modified: June 2, 2017
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# HTML notification emails – using custom excerpt
* Resolved [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidwbeatygmailcom/)
* (@davidwbeatygmailcom)
* [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-custom-excerpt/)
* Hi Devon,
I am trying to make your email notifications respect the HTML of the
body of the post. (Right now the notification is just bunched together text with
no line breaks etc.) To accomplish this I am trying to use the “Advanced Excerpt”
plugin but it seems your plugin (which is great!) does not respect these “custom
excerpts”. Is there a tag that will use the plain old WP excerpt (the one this
except is modifying?)
* I just need the notification email to look nicer. It’s a requirement from my
boss 😉
* Thanks in advance for your help!
- This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidwbeatygmailcom/).
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* Plugin Author [Devon Ostendorf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devonostendorf/)
* (@devonostendorf)
* [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-custom-excerpt/#post-9197880)
* Hi David,
* I saw your other thread and that you got your excerpt to show up (which is a
good first step 🙂 ).
* As for formatting, at least one other person has mentioned in the past that Post
Notif does not work with the custom excerpts created by the Advanced Excerpts
plugin; sorry about that. I am curious, however, what exact HTML tags you have
in the excerpt, so I can do some further investigation.
* When you have a chance, would you please send me a sample? My email address is
my first name at devonostendorf dot com.
* Thanks,
Devon
* Plugin Author [Devon Ostendorf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devonostendorf/)
* (@devonostendorf)
* [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-custom-excerpt/#post-9501532)
* Hi David,
* I’m not sure whether you were able to resolve this issue but since it has been
several months since there’s been activity on this thread, I am going to mark
it as resolved.
* Thanks,
Devon
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## Tags
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* Last reply from: [Devon Ostendorf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devonostendorf/)
* Last activity: [8 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-custom-excerpt/#post-9501532)
* Status: resolved