The manual Excerpt in WordPress. What, why, how, tips and plugins.: Demetris has a written a very nice, well illustrated and explained tutorial on the WordPress excerpt and how to manipulate it to take full advantage of it.
WordPress excerpts, which are not excerpts, make a WordPress site easier to browse and its content easier to discover. In addition, when also used as META descriptions, good excerpts bring more and better traffic from search engines.
Topics discussed include:
What is the WordPress excerpt
Why write excerpts in WordPress
How to write excerpts
WordPress Excerpt Editor
Excerpts as META descriptions
Notes, Miscellaneous
Links
In Demetris’ style, the tutorial is very well written and well fleshed out.
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Original post by Mark Ghosh
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