Display Manual Excerpts Below Page Titles in Genesis

WordPress Excerpt is a brief summary of your page. By default, the WordPress Excerpt is only enabled on posts.  However, in order to enable the excerpt on pages (typically below the page title), you can follow the steps below.

Step #1: Add Support for Page Excerpts

Step #2: Output Page Excerpt in Genesis Theme

Step #3: Style It as Necessary

Before we start off, I’d like to show the before/after image so you know exactly what you’re doing to achieve in this tutorial.

Before: Sample Page without Excerpt

After: Sample Page with Excerpt

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Step #1 & #2 Add Support for Page Excerpts & Output Page Excerpt

Step #3. Style It

h1 {
font-size: 52px;
font-size: 5.2rem;
font-weight: 900;
font-family: Playfair Display;
font-style: initial;
}

.page-description {
text-align: center;
padding: 5%;
background: gold;
font-style: italic;
}