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Well, duh! I forgot to re-index the table. It’s working fine now, never mind ??

Well, in addition to missing the jetpack support section (thanks for the link) I am not able to figure out how to mark a reply as clearly spam?

Because that is totally spam ??

I solved it!!

It was indeed a conflict with Yoast SEO Plugin.

If I went back into the page, and added an Excerpt in *addition* to the Yoast metadata, now it uses the excerpt as the blurb and only has “read more”.

Whew!

Oh, and I forgot to say — Thank you!! ??

The plugins we have activated right now are:

• SiteGround Optimizer (caching)
• Organic Customizer Widgets
• Askimet
• VaultPress
• Jetpack
• Yoast

We aren’t using any of the Organic Widgets on the pages where we are having this issue.
De-activating Yoast doesn’t help with the grid excerpts; it still just grabs the first paragraph. And has both read more/continue reading.

We briefly tried the plugin TablePress, but it doesn’t seem to work well with this theme. The formatting goes wonky ?? We de-activated it.