Customizing Excerpts

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  ashleyspriggle · Member · Jul 27, 2015 at 4:23 pm

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  With the new post dashboard, where do I find the space to customize my excerpts for the Goran theme?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  darrellschulte · Member · Jul 27, 2015 at 4:40 pm

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  Hello Ashley,

  Are you asking how to style them? Go to http://wordpress.com/customize/ and then select Custom Design (this is a feature of WordPress.com’s Premium or Business plans). Use the CSS Editor to add code to your site — you could do something like the following:

  .entry-excerpt p {
      font-style: italic;
  }

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  ashleyspriggle · Member · Jul 27, 2015 at 4:43 pm

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  No, not style them. WordPress under the old post dashboard allowed us to customize our excerpts. These customized excerpts would end up on the post page instead of the first couple of lines from the post. Right now, with the new layout for writing posts that function is gone.

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  darrellschulte · Member · Jul 27, 2015 at 4:49 pm

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  Gotcha. Go edit a post you want to manually add an excerpt to and scroll down the left-hand column.

  Change Status
  Tags & Categories
  Featured Image
  Sharing
  Location
  Excerpt

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  ashleyspriggle · Member · Jul 27, 2015 at 4:55 pm

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  This is what that sidebar says
  It goes:
  Change Status
  Page Settings
  – parent page
  – page template
  -page order
  Featured Image
  Advanced Settings
  -slug
  -author
  -visibility
  -likes & shares
  -discussion

  There is no Excerpt to be found. It used to be there.

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  darrellschulte · Member · Jul 27, 2015 at 4:59 pm

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  Pages do not contain excerpts, however, you will find it for posts.

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  ashleyspriggle · Member · Jul 27, 2015 at 5:05 pm

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  Pages use to contain excerpts. I used them prior to this under the old dashboard. Example: Goran, which I have used from day one, puts pages on the homepage. Those pages had an excerpt function so that the page’s writing wouldn’t show up beneath the picture. Now, with the new dashboard- it is gone. I need a way to get it back, or a code to fix the problem.

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  darrellschulte · Member · Jul 27, 2015 at 6:07 pm

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  Are you asking about https://ashleyspriggle.wordpress.com/ or a different site?

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  ashleyspriggle · Member · Jul 27, 2015 at 6:23 pm

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  Different site. Heroesinhandcuffs.wordpress.com

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  darrellschulte · Member · Jul 27, 2015 at 6:43 pm

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  Go to https://ashleyspriggle.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=page and edit the page in question. Click on the Screen Options pull down and check to see if there is an Excerpt listed. Is there one?

  If there is, make sure it’s checked on and then look on your page edit screen for the Excerpt area.