WordPress offers theme designers the option to show a post's Excerpt (instead of its full content or lead+body) on pages within the theme:
This is how the excerpt works:
- If you enter some text into the Excerpt box on the Edit Post page, that text will be used as the post's excerpt on the pages that call for it.
- If you do not enter any text into the Excerpt box, WordPress will use the first 55 words of the post's content (which is stripped of HTML tags) followed by [...] (which is not a link).
- If you do not enter any text into the Excerpt box, and the theme you are using does something special, the number of words and the final text ...