Excerpt for a Page

[Richard Brown]

How can I add an excerpt to a page so that I caned its length and what it says? It seems now that it takes a certain number of words beginning with the first paragraph.

 

[Alex]

Can you provide me with a little more details? I am not sure what exactly you are asking for.

 

[Richard Brown]

Alex, I did a new page and wanted to announce it on the Stream. The image is what I have. When I do a post, I can write an excerpt of my choosing. I am trying to see oi there is a way to do this with pages. Does this help?

 

[Alex]

Alex, I did a new page and wanted to announce it on the Stream. The image is what I have. When I do a post, I can write an excerpt of my choosing. I am trying to see oi there is a way to do this with pages. Does this help?

Yes, thank you. Do you have the "excerpt" box on the post editor when you edit any page?

If not, try adding this line to your child theme functions.php file:

add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );

Then you should be able to control the excerpt on your pages.

 

[Richard Brown]

Thanks, Alex.

 

[Richard Brown]

Can I do the same to add an excerpt for a Stream?

add_post_type_support( 'stream', 'excerpt' );

 

[Alex]

Can I do the same to add an excerpt for a Stream?

add_post_type_support( 'stream', 'excerpt' );

Yes, this should also add excerpt to the stream. If not I can add this natively in a dropin update.

 

[Richard Brown]

@Alex, it worked!