Can We Have Excerpt In Classical Editor?

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    linxueditor001 · Member ·

    Hi there,

    I have an idea, can we have ‘Excerpt’ column in classical editor like there is a ‘Excerpt’ column in new editor? The tag system in classical editor is handy for me while Excerpt make blog looks neat. Thanks.

    Regards,

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    timethief · Member ·

    If you want to display only excerpts on the front page of the blog followed by read more links, you can insert “the more tag” into each post prior to publication.
    http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

    Alternatively, you can switch to using a theme that automatically displays front page excerpts. This is a list of active themes on WordPress.com that use the excerpt instead of full post content. Here are the themes that do provide that feature > https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/theme-with-automatic-excerpts?replies=13#post-1396410

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    linxueditor001 · Member ·

    The Idea
    Thanks for your reply, timethief, I will ponder on your suggestions. As matter of fact, the Expound theme that I am using works fine with me, except the ‘Excerpt’ in new editor works in an unstable way, there are a few times my blog posts content were taken to earlier version or shown mojibake after I edited the excerpt in new editor, I’ve been waiting for like weeks for improvement by WordPress group, I was a little bit impatient of waiting, that is why I came up with the idea.

    About “the more tag”
    I never actually use “the more tag”, my guess is that “the more tag” will showed a few words above, while “excerpt’ showed exact a few words chosen by blogger, if I’m right about it, I will prefer to stay with Excerpt.

    About Theme
    I pay attentions to details, so changing a theme is a big issue to me, last time I changed my blog theme(into Expound them), it took my attention away from my writing for like a week or two, I was quiet worn out back then, so I am having second thought before I actually take another action for changing a new theme now.

    Thanks again.

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