Reply To: Beginners question "Excerpt in Search results list"

• John Huebner

• February 17, 2017 at 3:13 am

In your search results page

$excerpt = get_the_excerpt();
if (!$excerpt) {
  $excerpt = get_field('your-excerpt-field');
}

of add a “get_the_excerpt” filter in functions.php that does something similar https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/get_the_excerpt