Using Excerpt in WordPress and Blocksy

exist WordPress Middle.Excerpt (summary) is an important tool used to briefly display article content on archive pages to help visitors quickly preview the article and decide whether to continue reading the full article.Blocksy The theme has been optimized for the summary feature to make it more flexible to use.

In this article, we will introduce how Excerpt works and how to set up and optimize summaries in Blocksy theme.

Basic Concepts of Excerpt

By default, theWordPress An article summary is automatically generated on the blog archive page, usually taken from the opening sentences of the article.
If you click into the article details, you can see the full content. However, on archive pages, category pages, tabs, etc., displaying a short summary helps to improve page neatness and reading efficiency.

Not only that.Blocksy The theme also allows displaying summaries in the header area of a single article page for specific design needs.

Setting up Excerpt in Blocksy

show (a ticket) Customizer After the Blog Posts Card Options Find summary-related settings in:

• Automatic generation of summaries: Extracts a specified number of words as a summary based on the beginning of the article.
• Control of summary length: You can set the number of words to be extracted and adjust the length of the summary display.

• Full display mode: When "Full text mode" is selected, the entire article will be displayed directly instead of the summary, which is suitable for a small number of short content scenarios.

For single article pages, the summary can also appear in the header section (Hero Section). The relevant settings are located in the Customizer's Single Posts > Post Title Page.

Customized manual summaries

WordPress Manual input of summaries is also supported to have a higher degree of freedom:

• Go to the article editing screen.
• In the right-hand options bar, find the Excerpt (summary) Input Area.

• Customize the content you want to display by filling in the fields.

It is important to note that once the manual summary has been filled out, theWordPress This manual content will be used by default and no longer automatically generate a summary. At this point, the auto-summary setting in the customizer is also no longer in effect. This approach is suitable for situations where you want to have precise control over the article preview text.

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Excerpt, yes. WordPress An important part of the content presentation. Combined with Blocksy Themes that can either automatically generate summaries or manually fine-tune them to meet the content layout needs of different scenarios.
Flexible use of summaries can make a website's archive page more aesthetically pleasing and organized, improving the overall reading experience.

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