Add or edit a manual excerpt

1. 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. In the right sidebar, click the Post tab.
3. Locate the excerpt module.
   • For blog posts, open the Settings menu. Click the Excerpt module.
   • For pages, scroll to the bottom of the page and use the Excerpt widget.

4. Edit the text.
5. Click Update at the top right of the page.