Example of how to use Jekyll's `excerpt` tag.

excerpt.md

If your post looked something like:

# Awesome Blog Post

Here is an example post to show how to use the new `excerpt` tag.

The excerpt tag provides a quick and easy way to tease a post by exposing only the first paragraph such as on a blog index page.

Then in your template, you could create an index file like this:

<ul>
{% for post in site.posts %}
  <li>
    <a href="{% post.permalink %}">{% post.title %}</a>
    <p>{{ post.excerpt }}</p>
  </li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>

Which would produce:

• Awesome Blog Post
  Here is an example post to show how to use the new excerpt tag.

Trying to figure out Jekyll. Getting this error when generating "Liquid Exception: Unknown tag 'post' in index.md"

same here! Liquid Exception: Unknown tag 'post' error.

Use {{ post.excerpt }} instead of {% post.excerpt %}. For example:

<ul>
  {% for post in site.posts %}
    <li>
      <a href="{{ post.permalink }}">{{ post.title }}</a>
      <p>{{ post.excerpt }}</p>
    </li>
  {% endfor %}
</ul>

See the documentation for more information.

Even with {{ instead of {%, this doesn't work for me. It always returns the full content of the post...

Remember to use in the actual post to tell Jekyll where it should 'cut' the post for the excerpt content. You can also set excerpt_separator globally in your _config.yml to whatever may tickle you fancy.

I have an image to start off my post, and the excerpt shows only the image. How can I show text and not the image?

@vkatariya8 I have the same situation here. My "solution" was put the image at the end of the post.

@vkatariya8 I have excerpt_separator: "<!--more-->" in my _config.yml. In the post, I then place an image then the first paragraph (the default excerpt) followed by <!--more-->.

This didn't work for me either, I had to escape the html more comment inside the liquid expand. Then it worked.

I believe the excerpt method takes the whole first paragraph if you don't specify the separator.

Someone could say me the best excerpt_delimiter for using --- as excerpt delimiter?

I use the following

{{ post.content | strip_html | truncatewords:75 }}

http://stackoverflow.com/a/20483107/558777

Thanks @ahmadajmi
If you leave out "strip_html" a post image will show if it is before the truncate.
The following works as well.
{{ post.excerpt | strip_html | truncatewords:75 }}

I use the following

{{ post.content | strip_html | truncatewords:75 }}

http://stackoverflow.com/a/20483107/558777

Awesome. I was wondering what would happen if an image was within the post.content excerpt area. I didn't want the image displayed, but only the text. Thanks for sharing! The strip_html did the trick.

I have a one sentence paragraph, and a full paragraph below. Any way to set the excerpt to show more than one paragraph and truncate at 275?

I have specified excerpt_separator: <!--more--> in the _config.yml file and in front matter, but it doesn't matter where I put it <!–more–>.
Upon request {{ post.excerpt }} I get all content 🙃