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The excerpt is a short teaser for the actual content of the blog post. The “Excerpt” field can be displayed via “Screen Options”. Here we show you how to activate the excerpt in WordPress without Gutenberg step by step: In the Gutenberg editor, the field is called “Text excerpt” and is located in the right-hand column in the document area.

The excerpt is displayed wherever posts appear in an overview, such as on the blog page or in a Widget with the latest articles.

Not to be confused with the meta description: the excerpt appears on your own website, the description in the search engine results. If the field is left blank, WordPress automatically uses the first lines of the post.

Read how we build websites with it at Web design with WordPress.

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