Excerpts for my Featured Posts Gallery on Academica theme

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  knowlesz · Member · May 30, 2013 at 4:13 pm

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  HI,
  I am currently using the Featured Posts Gallery widget on Academica theme and have noticed that I cant add an excerpt to show on my home page. ( it just shows the first 4 lines of my post) I would like to just have a line of text with read more at the end. Can you please help me out?
  Thanks

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  timethief · Member · May 30, 2013 at 4:18 pm

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  Have you tried inserting “the more tag” into your posts to split content followed by a read more link? http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

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  knowlesz · Member · May 30, 2013 at 4:53 pm

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  Thank you for your help and speedy response timethief, sadly it doesn’t work for the purpose of only showing an excerpt on my Featured Posts Gallery on the home page.

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  timethief · Member · May 30, 2013 at 5:00 pm

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  I have read the entries and I don’t see any means of doing what you want to do. The widget data is cached and automatically pulled from the posts. We cannot edit what the widget displays.

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  knowlesz · Member · May 30, 2013 at 5:08 pm

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  Yeah, I thought that might be the case. Its strange is it not, because being able to write an excerpt for the Feature Posts Gallery should be standard. Thanks for your help again.

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  timethief · Member · May 30, 2013 at 5:11 pm

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  You’re welcome.

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  justpi · Member · May 31, 2013 at 4:17 am

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  The above replies are incorrect: you create your own custom excerpt by entering text in the Excerpt module of the post editor.
  If you’re not seeing the Excerpt module while editing a post, click Screen Options (top right) to activate it.