{{excerpt}} outputs content but strips all HTML. This is useful for creating excerpts of posts.
If the post’s custom_excerpt property is set, then the helper will always output the custom_excerpt content ignoring the words & characters attributes.
When both html and custom_excerpt properties are not set (for example, when member content gating strips the html) the output is generated from the post’s excerpt property.
The excerpt property is limited to the first 500 characters of the post’s plaintext output. To output a longer preview from the post body, use the {{content}} helper instead.
You can limit the amount of text to output by passing one of the options:
{{excerpt words="50"}} will output 50 words of text, up to the generated excerpt length.
{{excerpt characters="140"}} will output 140 characters of text (rounding to the end of the current word).