frankg26

It has been fixed! I had to set up SMTP with the WP Mail SMTP plugin

Hello @_dorsvenabili Thanks for your reply, I did not get a push notification. Hence I never got to read this message until just now. I will take a look.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by frankg26.

That is correct, manual excerpts exist to serve another purpose. However the excerpts I want to display are the auto generated ones. I use a an internal theme which was created by a contractor, but he cherry picked out components of the Twenty Seventeen and Twenty Sixteen themes.

My understanding is that the function wp_trim_excerpt() (found in the formatting.php file according to developer.www.ads-software.com) only creates the auto excerpt if there is no manual excerpt. I am now wondering if I can modify this function, so that it always generates an auto excerpt.

I am comfortable changing the code that was made from the contractor. But I get the vibe that this is WordPress standard functionality and concern that changing it will affect other areas of the site. Hence, why I preferred to ask about it before touching anything in the code.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 8 months ago by frankg26.

I am not using any plugin, I just filled in the excerpt field that is originally hidden in the Screen Option of the Post editor.

I am aware that already, but is there a way (even if its through code) to overwrite WordPress default functionality and use Automatic Excerpts

Still looking for a solution…

Thanks for pointing out that the excerpt would be modified on the site itself, I overlooked that.

What plugin could I use? I tried using Custom Simple Rss, but it could not accomplish this.

Also, I was able to change the RSS feed by utilizing a custom excerpt made by enabling excerpt from the Screen Display option. But I ran into the two issues described in my original post.