The excerpt in WordPress is a short summary of a post. It is written by hand and it can replace the full post in places where a summary is preferable. The manual excerpt in WordPress telling you what is Wordprese Excerpt, why write excerpt in WordPress, how to write WordPress Excerpt, and etc.

The space of the default WordPress excerpt for editing is too small, and WordPress Excerpt Editor plugin is the recommended plugin for you to edit your WordPress excerpt more easier at the convenience place.

Let see how we customize WordPress excerpt as below:-

1. Default Usage with No Parameters
Displays the post excerpt. Used on non-single/non-permalink posts as a replacement for the_content() to force excerpts to show within the Loop.

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

2. Control Excerpt Length using Filters
By default, excerpt length is set to 55 words. To change excerpt length, add the following code to function.php file in your theme:

function new_excerpt_length($length) {
return 20;
}
add_filter(‘excerpt_length’, ‘new_excerpt_length’);

3. Using The Excerpt Reloaded Plugin
The Excerpt Reloaded has the following parameters that can be used to fine tune excerpts, detailed parameters will explained in The Excerpt Reloaded plugin page.

<?php the_excerpt_reloaded(excerpt_length, ‘allowedtags’, ‘filter_type’, use_more_link, ‘more_link_text’, force_more_link, fakeit, fix_tags); ?>