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Is there a way to display excerpts in WordPress?
There are many different ways to display excerpts for your pages in WordPress. Depending on what you are trying to do on your website, you can choose the method that best suits your need. This method allows you to create your own custom queries and display recent pages using a shortcode.
What’s the default length of an excerpt in word?
If you didn’t enter the custom excerpt for a page, then it will automatically generate the excerpt for the page with the default length of 55 words. If you are using the shortcode in a sidebar widget, then you may need to enable shortcode support for text widget.
How to display recent posts from a specific category?
Simply, edit the post or page where you want to display the recent posts by category. On the post edit screen, click on the add new block (+) button and then add Shortcode block to your content area. Next, you need to add your shortcode
Where do I Find my categories in WordPress?
To find the category page, you simply need to go to Posts » Categories » View page and click on the ‘View’ link below a category. That being said, let’s take a look at how to easily display recent posts by category in different areas of your website.
Most popular WordPress themes comes with built-in support to display custom excerpts on your posts. However some themes may not have excerpt support. If that’s the case for yours, then you’ll need to manually modify your theme files by creating a child theme and adding some code.
When to use auto generated excerpt in WordPress?
The auto-generated excerpt will begin with whatever text is at the start of your post. This can be fine in some cases, but it doesn’t work so well if you have anything before you start your post’s introduction. As you can see, the excerpt shows the text from the very start of the post.
Why does WordPress show full posts on home page?
By default, WordPress shows full posts on the homepage, blog page, and archives of your site. This makes your site slower and could lead search engines to believe that all these pages have duplicate content.