Tag: post excerpt

When WordPress used the first few (usually 55) words of the post content as post excerpt, by default it will end with a bracketed ellipsis like this [...]. Do you want to remove it or replace it with some other characters or symbols? Here’s how.

By default, the PHP scripts that call the post excerpt and category description automatically insert paragraph tags. You can disable the automatic insertion of paragraph tags should in case you decided to use them for something that makes paragraph tags unnecessary; for example, using post excerpt as meta description.

Most WordPress themes do not readily use post excerpt because many bloggers prefer either having entire posts or having posts cut down by “Read More” in category pages and search results rather than writing another bunch of text for each post. This post discusses how to enable post excerpt in your WordPress theme.

While the major search engines no longer consider meta description as a deciding factor in giving a page a rank in the search engine result page, it still appears in the search results as a description of your website. Hence, you can use it to entice people to visit your website. It will be much better for a WordPress-powered website if each page and post has its own meta description, some PHP tweak can do just that.