Use of excepts in place of summary for posts

Hello @engineeringforhumans,

Thanks for contacting us.

You can show the “Read More” button in your blogs on your site. You need to add more tag after ending of the First paragraph of your posts. You can follow below link to add more tag in posts.

https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-properly-use-the-more-tag-in-wordpress/

Let me know your issue is resolved or not.

Thanks,

Thanks, @88wpthemes. The “read more” function is working, I was just hoping to use the manual/custom excerpt instead of the beginning of the post as the post summary.