Show manual excerpt of WordPress post

Content Views helps you to show the excerpt of WordPress post easily without coding.
You can show the generate excerpt or manual excerpt.

Manual excerpt is a default feature of WordPress. If it is not enabled yet, you can enable and use it easily:

Enable for Classic Editor

WordPress manual excerpt
Manual excerpt in Classic editor. (click here to see full image)

Enable for Block Editor

Manual excerpt in new Gutenberg editor
Manual excerpt in new Gutenberg editor.

Show manual excerpt

Then you can show the manual excerpt with Content Views easily:

Content Views Pro - show manual excerpt

Notices

The manual excerpt is not enabled for Page by default. To enable manual excerpt for Page, please add this code to file functions.php in the theme’s folder:

/**
 * Enables the Excerpt meta box in Page edit screen.
 */
add_action( 'init', 'cvp_theme_add_excerpt_support_for_pages' );
function cvp_theme_add_excerpt_support_for_pages() {
	add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );
}

Thank you,

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