Can’t edit extract text

Try changing the post excerpt in the editor: https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/excerpt/

Hi James,

On Twenty Twenty theme with Gutenberg I cannot choose to display or not display Excerpt; it should appear in the right sidebar.

I think it’s something related to this theme because if I use another one I can see the Excerpt module.

Themes generally don’t have a control to display or not display the excerpt. Twenty Twenty is one of the the themes that does not.

What I meant is you can control the content of the excerpt.

Well, the issue is that Twenty Twenty shows an excerpt text that don’t allow to change. That’s the reason why I wrote in its support forum.

You can change the content of the excerpt: https://www.ads-software.com/support/article/excerpt/

That’s a core WordPress feature, and it works in any theme.

It sounds like what you’re asking for is the ability to selectively turn on or off the excerpt, which is only a feature in certain themes. Twenty Twenty is not one of those themes.

I understood that. What I’m saying is the illogical thing that I already said twice.

Ciao.

Perhaps you could elaborate a bit more on that then, since I’m apparently misunderstanding you?

Here is a screenshot: https://prnt.sc/qf4h2a

You can see the H1 or title of this sample page and its excerpt text. That excerpt text it was first written with a different theme and if you want to edit it using TwentyTwenty you can’t do that even if the theme is showing it.

So TwentyTwenty “recognize” excerpt but maybe the developers don’t realized yet that they “forget” to enable the option in pages editor.

@axsu In that screenshot I see a page, excerpts for pages are not enabled by default. You’ll need to add this code to enable the possibility of adding/changing page excerpts:

add_action( 'init', function() {
    add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );
} );

just to slide in some info:
I created all my pages on a web page using the 2020 theme beginning with version 1.0.0 and I did not change anything at the beginning.

In 1.0.0 I created some lorem ipsum pages holding an excerpt. on 1.1.0 I can no longer edit the excerpts of pages.
I cannot find a download link of v1.0.0 to verify this but this feels like a regression to me.

Would you please report that via https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/newticket using the Bundled Theme component? Oh, and please start the ticket’s subject with Twenty Twenty:

The post type support for pages was actually in an early version of Twenty Twenty. It was removed because it is not a theme responsibility, and should not have been there in the first place.