How to add excerpts to your pages in WordPress?

Excerpts are short summaries of your content that can be used in different parts of your website, such as search results, blog page, portfolio page, or featured content on the homepage. Here are some free methods to add excerpts to your pages in WordPress:

• Method 1: Use the Excerpt Meta Box
  • This method allows you to manually write a custom excerpt for each page in WordPress. To do this, you need to add a code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file or a site-specific plugin. The code snippet is:

    add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );
    

  • After adding the code, you will see an Excerpt meta box on the right side of the editor when you create or edit a page. You can type a short description of the content in the Excerpt meta box. If you don’t write an excerpt yourself, WordPress will automatically use the first 55 words of your page as your excerpt.
• Method 2: Use the Display Posts Shortcode Plugin
  • This method allows you to create your own custom queries and display recent pages with excerpts using a shortcode. To do this, you need to install and activate the Display Posts Shortcode plugin. After activating the plugin, you can use the following shortcode to display 10 recent pages with their title, excerpt, and a continue reading link:

    [display-posts post_type="page" include_excerpt="true" excerpt_more="Continue Reading" excerpt_more_link="true"]

  • You can customize the shortcode parameters according to your needs. For example, you can change the number of pages, the order, the category, the image size, and more.
• Method 3: Use AI to Create an Excerpt
  • This method allows you to ask AI to create a page or post excerpt for you based on the content of your page or post. To do this, you need to write your content first and then click on the Excerpt option on the right side of the editor. You will see an option to use AI to create an excerpt. You can choose the language, tone, model, and desired length for your excerpt and click on Generate button. AI will create an excerpt for you and you can choose to accept or discard it.

These are some free methods to add excerpts to your pages in WordPress. We hope this tutorial helps you create better summaries for your content. Thank you for using Bing!

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