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What I ended up doing is to use the Genesis Featured Page widget to select the page and its featured image, but I did not include the page content. Then I added a Text widget to the same widget area and put the excerpt in there.
Erica MMemberWhat I ended up doing is to use the Genesis Featured Page widget to select the page and its featured image, but I did not include the page content. Then I added a Text widget to the same widget area and put the excerpt in there (no title for the Text widget).
Erica MMemberWhat I ended up doing (using the Corporate Theme), was to set up the Genesis Featured Page Widget this way:
Filled in the title.
Selected the page.
Checked to include the featured image, which was already associated with the page.
I left the Show Page Content box unchecked.
Left Content Character Limit and More Text blank.This will show a header and the featured image only.
Then I added a Text widget in the same section, with no title, and the custom excerpt.
The disadvantage to this method is you don't get to use the automatic More Text link, but you can still navigate to the page because the featured image links to it. Or you can manually link to the page.
Note that, for the Featured Page Widget, if you check the Show Page Content box and leave the character limit field blank, you can instead use a More tag on the page (even mid-paragraph) to establish the cut off point for the excerpt that's included in the home page widget. That's only if you want the excerpt to match the beginning text on the page. The advantage to this is if you want them to match, you can change the text in one place and the change will show up in both places.
But you asked about a custom excerpt, so that's probably not what you want.
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