{"id":73830,"date":"2012-03-12T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=73830"},"modified":"2013-04-24T23:29:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T03:29:31","slug":"how-to-activate-and-take-control-of-excerpts-on-your-wordpress-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/how-to-activate-and-take-control-of-excerpts-on-your-wordpress-site\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Activate and Take Control of Excerpts on Your WordPress Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019d like to show excerpts on your site\u2019s homepage, but your theme isn\u2019t set up for that, then you could dig into your code and change it.<\/p>\n<p>But if you don\u2019t like digging into your code, or you don\u2019t have the first idea about digging into your code, then the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/auto-excerpt-everywhere\/\" target=\"_blank\">Auto Excerpt Everywhere<\/a> plugin can do it for you.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what it allows you to do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turn excerpts on<\/li>\n<li>Control the length of excerpts<\/li>\n<li>Change the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wordpress-read-more-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>\u201d text<\/li>\n<li>Control thumbnails \u2013 off\/on plus size control<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can take a look at the settings and the result here.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox[73830]\" class=\"blog-thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/how-to-activate-and-take-control-of-excerpts-on-your-wordpress-site\/settings-result\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-73833\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73833\" title=\"settings-result\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/settings-result.jpg\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" width=\"638\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take control of your WordPress excerpts: turn them on, control length, control thumbnails, control \u201cRead more\u201d text. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84404,"featured_media":206653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1234],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-73830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-thumbnails"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206652,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73830\/revisions\/206652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73830"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=73830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}