Excerpt disappeared after upgrade to 3.1

Troubleshooting WordPress 3.1 – Master List

Oh, that’s a really useful post! nice!

Ipstenu put most of it together – though I dare say we’ll start adding to it over the next few days.

Jeez its a sticky too…. I must be new here….. ??

Ahh! I was struggling with this myself, so I thought I’d post the solution:

WordPress 3.1 turns off the post excerpt option by default. To turn it back on again go to the screen options tab at the top of the page when editing a post. This link explains in more detail:

https://ottopress.com/2011/wp-quickie-metaboxes/