Post Excerpt – core/post-excerpt
Display a post’s excerpt.
Use the Post Excerpt block to display a post’s excerpt.
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Example
This is a hand crafted post excerpt. Read more
Notes
- The Post Excerpt block didn’t behave the way I expected it to behave. It ignored the More block.
- If you write an Excerpt in the Settings Excerpt panel there’s more chance of getting it to say what you want it to say.
- You can’t use HTML though.
- Toggle the Show link on new line setting to choose how the Read more… link appears.
- Read more… is just a placeholder. Replace it with the text you require.
- This is an FSE block. Use it within Query Loop – core/query.
- Change text alignmentUse Change text alignment to choose how to align the text.
- Align text leftUse the Align text left drop-down from the toolbar to align text to the left.
- Align text centerAlign content centrally.
- Align text rightUse the Align text right drop-down from the toolbar to align text to the right.
- BoldUse Bold to mark selected text as bold.
- ItalicUse Italic to mark selected text as italic.
- LinkUse Link to create a hyperlink to your highlighted text.
- More rich text controlsFind more text controls in this dropdown.
- Inline codeUse inline code feature to format code snippets within your text.
- Inline imageInsert an inline image.
- StrikethroughUse Strikethrough to strikethrough the selected text.
- SubscriptUse Subscript to add subscript to your highlighted text.
- SuperscriptUse Superscript to add superscript to your highlighted text.
- Text colorUse Text color to change the color of the selected text
- More optionsDisplay more options
- Show More SettingsShow the block settings in the sidebar.
- CopyCopy the block to the clipboard.
- DuplicateUse Duplicate to create a copy of the block.
- Insert AfterInsert a new block after the selected block(s).
- Insert BeforeInsert a new block before the selected block(s).
- Move To Use Move To to move a block. Up/Down or Left/Right
- Edit as HTMLEdit the HTML of the block.
- GroupTransform the selected block(s) into a group.
- Add to Reusable blocksCreate a Reusable block.
- Remove blockDelete the block.
Post Excerpt transforms to:
- Columns
- Group