Custom slider captions

carlyas
March 8, 2012 at 1:16 am #3755

Hello,

I’m wondering, is it possible to enter a custom caption on the slider instead of the post excerpt? If so, how?

Thanks in advance.

Anonymous
March 8, 2012 at 2:10 am #25805

Yes, you can create a custom excerpt in the area below the main editor when editing a post/page.

This will (I think, but could be wrong) also affect the excerpt areas on the main page and the category archives pages.

carlyas
March 8, 2012 at 2:26 pm #25806

I don’t see the area where I can change it. I tried description, but that didn’t do anything. Here is a screenshot:

Anonymous
March 8, 2012 at 3:18 pm #25807

Click and expand Screen Options at the top right corner and select Excerpt thing. (I’m not sure what it is labelled)

carlyas
March 8, 2012 at 3:35 pm #25808

These are the screen options I have. Do you know which it is?

Thank you all for your help

carlyas
March 8, 2012 at 5:15 pm #25809

I just found the “excerpts” panel on the posts… but the screenshots above are from pages I would like to feature in the slider. Is the custom excerpt possible for pages?
Anonymous
March 8, 2012 at 7:39 pm #25810
Add this function to your child theme functions.php file:
```
add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );
```
Remember to enclose it with the php code, if you don’t yet have a functions.php file.

If you don’t have one, the entire code should look like this:
```
<?php

add_post_type_support( 'page', 'excerpt' );

?>
```
carlyas
March 8, 2012 at 8:48 pm #25811

Great… thanks so much!