[christopher Austin]

Hello,

It appears that your themes, at least the two I have used, have removed the excerpt field in the editor. How can I put the excerpt field back in the Catch Base Free editor?

Thank you!

[Skandha]

@caustin: Go to => Dashboard => Posts => Edit a post => On the top right hand side you will see Screen Options => Click on it and check Excerpt to enable Excerpt field.

Let me know if this works out!
Kind Regards,
Skandha

[christopher Austin]

Hi Skandha,

Thanks for the update! Sorry, I forgot to mention I’m using the new Gutenberg editor and I think meta boxes are working differently in Gutenberg. So, there’s no Screen Options. Any thoughts?

Thanks again,
Christopher

[Skandha]

@caustin: I checked out the Gutenberg editor at my end and the Excerpt option was showing up and it seems to be working fine. You can checkout the screenshot below:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xlec6lovpafffc3/Screenshot_2018-09-18%20Edit%20Post%20%E2%80%B9%20Support%20%E2%80%94%20WordPress.png?dl=0

Let me know if this helps you out!
Kind Regards,
Skandha

[christopher Austin]

@Skandha,

Yea, that’s the way it’s supposed to look, but mine looks like this…

https://www.dropbox.com/s/q891yeoke9th3jo/Screenshot-NoExcerpt.png?dl=0

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The excerpt field IS available on Posts but NOT on Pages.

[christopher Austin]

Also…

I switched back to the classic editor for a Page to see if I could turn on Excerpts and the Excerpt option was not in the Screen Options.

Thank you,
caustin

[christopher Austin]

Remembering that I had the same problem with the Catch Clean Business Pro, I put the following code into my Catch Base Child theme’s functions.php and I now have an excerpt metabox for pages:

// Adding excerpt for page
add_post_type_support( ‘page’, ‘excerpt’ );

Thanks,
caustin

[Skandha]

@caustin: Yes, for pages you will need to put that piece of good to get the Excerpt Checkbox show up in Screen Options. Glad you were able to figure it out. Have a good day! 🙂

Kind Regards,
Skandha

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