Hand-crafting Excerpts for Pages got a lot easier in in WordPress 3+. Put this in your functions.php:
add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );
And voilà , an Excerpt textarea should now show on your Edit Page screen (make sure “Excerpt” is checked in Edit Page»Screen Options). To extract Pages’ Excerpts…
Inside a WP loop (e.g., query_posts()), you can use the_excerpt() (or the_excerpt_rss()):
<?php query_posts( 'post_type=page' );?><br /> <?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?></p> <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3> <p> <?php the_excerpt(); ?><br /> <?php endwhile; else: ?></p> <p>Yer lame-ass Loop is Post-less.</p> <p><?php endif; ?>
Outside the loop, get_pages() will git ‘er done:
<?php<br /> $pages = get_pages();<br /> foreach ( $pages as $page ) : ?></p> <h3><a href="<?php echo get_page_link($page->ID); ?>"><?php echo $page->post_title; ?></a></h3> <p><?php echo $page->post_excerpt; ?></p> <p><?php endforeach; ?>
Both the above output about the same HTML. To access a single Page’s Excerpt, get_page() already has a post_excerpt parameter:
<?php $n = 420; echo( get_page($n)->post_excerpt ) ?>
Note: you gotta pass a variable into the above function, else WP will freak. As decreed in the esteemed Codex:
“You must pass in a variable to the get_page function. If you pass in a value (e.g.
get_page(123);), WordPress will generate an error.”
Apparently a Page Excerpt panel was once part of WP’s past. Well, they’re back, baby.
via mfields.