How to Remove Astra Post Excerpt from the Post Archive

Astra is a popular WordPress theme known for its flexibility and customization options. However, sometimes you might want to make specific changes to its default behavior.

One common customization request is to remove the post excerpt from the post archive pages.

In this document, we’ll guide you through the process of achieving this from the available customization options without even needing any custom code.

Why Remove the Post Excerpt?

Post excerpts are brief summaries of your blog posts that appear on archive pages, such as category, tag, and author archives. While they can be helpful, there are situations where you might prefer not to display the post excerpt.

Perhaps you want to focus solely on the post titles and featured images, or you have a specific design in mind that doesn’t require excerpts.

How to Remove Astra Post Excerpt from the Post Archive

To remove the post excerpt from Astra’s post archive pages, you can follow the below-mentioned steps.

• Navigate to Appearance > Customize > Post Types > Blog/Archive.
• There, scroll down to Post Structure, and you will see some Post Elements.
• These Post Elements can be enabled or disabled with a click using the eye icon next to them.
• Select Excerpt and click on the eye icon in front of it to disable the excerpt on your blog/archive pages.

• Save the changes.

Your archive pages will now show only post titles and featured images, or whatever other content you have on your archive pages.

Additionally, there may be instances when you wish to retain the “Read More” while removing the excerpt. In such cases, you can simply click on the eye icon to enable only the “Read More”.

Similarly, you can click the eye icon in front of other post elements to enable or disable them on the blog/archive.

Extend with Astra Pro

You can extend this customization with Astra Pro. The Blog Pro module of Astra Pro provides additional customization options for excerpts and read more, along with several other customizations for blog/archive and single posts.

With the Blog Pro module of Astra Pro, you can:

• Change the excerpt count
• Change the read more text
• Make read more as button
• Display read time

Check this doc to learn more about the Blog Pro module of Astra Pro.

We hope the above information has been helpful. If you have any feedback or need support, please do not hesitate to contact us.