Check if the user has explicitly set an excerpt

Question

Is there a way for me to check if the user has explicitly set an excerpt? I need to call the excerpt only if they've specified something in the excerpt field, and not an automatically shortened version of the content.

Answer 1

Try this:

if ( has_excerpt( $some_post_id ) ) {
    // Do something here?
} else {
    // Or here?
}

References:

• has_excerpt

Answer 2

This is an alternative to the answer by @tf

The manual excerpt set by a user is stored as a WP_Post object, $post_excerpt.

post_excerpt    string  User-defined post excerpt

You can access this excerpt inside the loop with $post->post_excerpt

You can simply do a check to see if this object is empty or not