# Post excerpt with more than one paragraph

**URL:** <https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/post-excerpt-with-more-than-one-paragraph/4933>\
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**Created:** [September 3, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/post-excerpt-with-more-than-one-paragraph/4933 "2020-09-03T16:56:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![printf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@printf](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/printf)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2020, 4:56pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/post-excerpt-with-more-than-one-paragraph/4933/1 "2020-09-03T16:56:10Z")

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I specify post excerpt in front matter since it’s not in the body of the post so I can’t use  
`excerpt_separator`. Is there a way to include paragraphs/lists in excerpt?

Or other way round, is it possible to remove anything before `excerpt_separator` when rendering a single post?

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**Author:** ![BillRaymond](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/billraymond/32/5963_2.png) [@BillRaymond](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/BillRaymond)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/post-excerpt-with-more-than-one-paragraph/4933/2 "2020-09-15T00:19:02Z")

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Check out the link below. The docs say you can use the `excerpt_separator` to define where to separate your content. It uses an example of making the separator `<!--more-->` (which seems to be. standard across different sites, including Wordpress.

You can use that value in the front-matter of individual posts or just set the value in \_config.yml.

With those settings in place, you can just type `<!--more-->` wherever you want the excerpt to end directly in your content.

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