Excerpt field under page edit screen disappears!

  • Resolved Lon

    (@lon2)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    I searched the best I could. I’m using a free theme and although I contributed to the designers PayPal account, they are refusing to help in their support thread. Excerpt field under the page edit screen intermittently disappears. Now it seems it’s gone for good with this last WP core update. My theme uses Excerpts with Tags and Search features so I need to stay on top of it and it’s a pain to keep editing in MyPHPAdmin. Is there anything I can do to force Excerpt to show in Page Edit?

    Thanks for the help!

    Lonny

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    I’m using a free theme

    What’s the name of this theme?

    and although I contributed to the designers PayPal account, they are refusing to help in their support thread

    I don’t follow it.

    Thread Starter Lon

    (@lon2)

    Thanks for your reply. I’m not here to bash anyone, I just want to try and get this rectified. Sorry.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Check ‘screen options’ at the top right of your dashboard when editing a post to make sure the ‘excerpts’ box is checked.

    Thread Starter Lon

    (@lon2)

    Thanks Steve! The options is not listed. I took a screenshot but I don’t see how to attach an image to my reply.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Actually, ‘excerpt’ appears only on posts, not pages. If you were seeing it on a page, it’s something added by your theme.

    This snipped adds excerpts to pages:

    add_action( 'init', 'my_add_excerpts_to_pages' );
function my_add_excerpts_to_pages() {
     add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );
}
    Thread Starter Lon

    (@lon2)

    I’m aware of that. I’m not even getting it in Posts edit.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    This may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to disable all plugins, and use one of the default (Twenty*) themes. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of your troubles.

    Thread Starter Lon

    (@lon2)

    Thanks. Disabling the plugins was the very thing I tried. Do you know what the Excerpt tags are for the themes?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    >> Excerpt tags <<

    I’m not sure what you mean by that.

    Thread Starter Lon

    (@lon2)

    I finally got a solution from my theme creator:

    Put this code into the child theme’s function.php:

    add_post_type_support( ‘page’, ‘excerpt’ );

    Thanks to all who tried to help!

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