Add or edit a manual excerpt

For customers using the Block Editor, click here.

Manual excerpts are short summaries of posts or pages. Your homepage, sidebar, or footer may display text from a post or page excerpt and link to the full content. For example, a widget titled About this blog or About our firm will display some text along with a link that leads to your About page. This article explains how to edit an excerpt.

Before you start

• Know the basics of editing posts or pages.

Steps

1. Open a post or page to edit.
2. Open your Screen Options at the top of the page and make sure the Excerpt box is checked.
3. Scroll down past the content editor and authors assignment box to the Excerpt:
   
   
   
   
4. Edit the text.
5. Scroll up and click Update.