Reader Ben, who’s a member of a tech community I’m part of; posed a question recently, specifically about why there was no preview text when a link to a post was posted in said community’s promotions channel. Rather than do what I usually do, I accept this as constructive criticism. What’s the point of having a site that anyone online can read, if I’m not willing to adapt my writing and my site to better reflect the audience I’m trying to capture?
I’m not trying to push some bullshit excuse here, but I’m still new(ish) to using WordPress, despite having used it at multiple stages over the course of it’s continued development. I honestly thought that the excerpts were automatically generated (and I can generate them with AI if I so choose); but no, I won’t use AI to generate a excerpt; and yes; I carry the knowledge moving forward that I need to manually write these.
Will I go back and write excerpts for all the posts? Most likely not, unless I have a lot of time to kill one day. But moving forward, this should be a included thing.