Excerpts not displaying in blog feed for posts created with the default editor

Hi,

Background

I have a website with a blog.

I create posts on the blog.

The posts go on the blog feed.

As per the instructions on https://wordpress.org/support/article/excerpt/ I followed the instructions to set up the excerpt display:

1 Go to Settings > Reading.
2 Scroll to For each article in a feed, show.
3 Select Summary.

I did that.

And I entered the excerpts correctly into the excerpts box.

I feel I know the excerpts functionality works, because it works correctly for posts created with the advanced editor.

The problem

For posts created with the default editor, I

1. Still put text in the excerpt box, which does display
2. Did NOT change the excerpt settings in Reading

So I expected it to work.

But these posts show up in the blog feed as the full posts – NOT as the excerpt with a “read More” button.

The issue

Now, I know that the default editor is not the Enfold editor.

But since everything is set up properly – as far as I can see – for default editor posts, and it’s still running the Enfold Theme, I need to find out if the Enfold theme is breaking the normal WordPress functionality or whether this is some error on my part with settings – even though I think I have all the settings right.

Thanks!

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