Add an Excerpt Box for Pages

Written by Jean Galea
Written by Jean Galea
This hack will add the same "excerpt" box which you are familiar with on the "Add/Edit Post" admin area and duplicate that functionality on the "Add/Edit Page" section. Now you have the usual excerpt box in the page editor, and you may use the_excerpt() when listing more than one page

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This hack will add the same “excerpt” box which you are familiar with on the “Add/Edit Post” admin area and duplicate that functionality on the “Add/Edit Page” section.

Now you have the usual excerpt box in the page editor, and you may use the_excerpt() when listing more than one page.

[php]
if ( function_exists(‘add_post_type_support’) )
{
add_action(‘init’, ‘add_page_excerpts’);
function add_page_excerpts()
{
add_post_type_support( ‘page’, ‘excerpt’ );
}
}
[/php]

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Written by Jean Galea
Jean Galea is an investor, entrepreneur, and blogger. He is the founder of WP Mayor, the plugins WP RSS Aggregator and Spotlight, as well as the Mastermind.fm podcast. His personal blog can be found at jeangalea.com.

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