Excerpts

The Excerpts settings specify whether the summary view, trackback URLs, and email notifications contain a excerpt of a posting's text when a user selects the option to automatically generate an excerpt for a posting.

For details on setting up excerpts when creating a blog posting, see Creating an excerpt.

To set excerpt options:

1.	Click the Settings & Security tab.

2.	Click Publishing Defaults in the Options list.

3.	Click Advanced.

4.	Scroll down to Excerpts.

Select one or more of the following options:

•	To enable or disable summary view excerpts, click or clear the Display excerpts in Category indexes checkbox.

•	To enable or disable trackback excerpts, click or the Use excerpt in trackbacks checkbox.

•	To enable or disable email notification excerpts, click the Use excerpt in email notification checkbox.

•	To define maximum size of automatically generated excerpts, enter the maximum number of words into the Excerpt size field

9.	Click the Save Settings button at the bottom of the page.

Note: If excerpts are enabled for any of the options listed above, the maximum size of automatically generated excerpts must also defined.