Just upgraded to 3.1 and post-excerpt field in admin disappeared

How do I enable the excerpt area again globally for all users? I have a site where they want all authors to have access to the excerpt box without having to instruct them all to find ‘screen options’ and click the check box.

Just found this on a post from Otto Destruct at https://ottopress.com/2011/wp-quickie-metaboxes/

Just go to your “Edit Post” page, then click on the “screen options” tab near the top right of the WP admin area. There you’ll see several tic boxes to turn on and off ALL features for that page.

Screen shot from Otto’s site: https://ottopress.com/files/2011/02/metabox-dropdown.png

This also works on ALL other pages throughout you WP admin area.

I tried the Ottopress link and I cannot find anywhere the “screen options”

Can someone please show me where they are in 3.1

Thank you

surfintica – Look at the TOP of your screen. See the grey admin bar?

BELOW that and ABOVE the ‘create a post’ header is the tab. It’s on the far right.

I think the issue is that the screen options is missing. Here is my admin bar…

https://farm6.static.flickr.com/5030/5551367248_75654ebeff_b.jpg

I have screen options on some of my other sites, but this one that I just installed with WordPress 3.1 and Thesis 1.8 doesn’t have the link. And I definitely need my excerpts field back!

Found the problem (in mine at least). Disable the Jetpack plugin and the Screen Options show up again!

That could do it. Interesting. I’ll pass that on to them!

Ipstenu… Just wanted to say thanks for the link to your recent article. I’m one of those dopes who needed a swift reminder kick to recheck the screen options so my excerpt section reappeared in the post editor after a 3.1.1 upgrade.

Howdy

The problem I had, even as an experienced WordPress user, designer and developer is that:

A: I hardly ever go near Screen Options, used it once to change dashboard ages ago.
B: The WordPress Update message hides the Screen Options dropdown. Considering I’m testing on my own webserver, it won’t even let me update anyway.

I can see the point of taking the not used often fields out but that really, really needed to be made obvious where to find them again. Come on guys, you can do better than that. Usability in WordPress Admin is normally exceptional.

To solve B – Update manually.

To wadsworth2,

For custom post types, you need to enable the features when you register them. Look here. Look specifically for the “supports” array, where you’ll add “excerpt” to the list of supported features. You’ll be doing something along these lines:

register_post_type( 'prefix_yourposttype',
 array(
   'labels' => array(
     'name' => __( 'Your Post Types' ),
     'singular_name' => __( 'Your Post Type' )
   ),
   'supports' => array(
     'title',
     'editor',
     'excerpt'
   ),
   'public' => true,
   'has_archive' => true,
   'menu_position' => 20
 )
);

Alternatively, you can also use add_post_type_support().

I hope that helps!

To add the excerpt feature to pages (assuming it isn’t showing under “Screen Options“), add the following code to your functions.php file.

//Add Excerpts to Pages
add_action('init', 'yourprefix_add_page_excerpt_support');

function yourprefix_add_page_excerpt_support() {
	add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );
}

Functions.php is found in “wp-content\themes\[your-currently-active-theme]\”.