Are you using the the_excerpt in your template or the_content?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt
Another option would be to simply ask the question in the post, and use the <!–more–> quicktag to force them to look at the whole post.
Sorry, think it wasn’t clear enough. I’m trying to do this on pages – i.e. Write -> Page.
I guess could do this using posts, however I have arranged the site to include posts as “additions” to the development of answers. Q/A pages consist of this structure…
;begin
Question
– excerpt
Answer
– main page text
Blog posts
– list of relevant blog info/posts, updating with new relevant information
;end
I **can** use the_excerpt(); to output it but it simply generates the top-bit of the page. I know there is space in the DB for this – as pages are stored as posts, I suspect it may just be the case that there is no form space to enter it in.
Ok, solved my own problem by copying the form-excerpt field from edit-form-advanced, and using it to create a plugin attached to the edit_page_form action.
Sorted.
