Post excerpt is ignored

[drbobsports]

• I confirm that this is an issue rather than a question.

Bug report

On index page only post summary is displayed. Even if post has excerpt part divided with

<!-- more -->

. It is ignored. I've struggled a lot of understanding why, until looked at the source code.

Steps to reproduce

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• This issue doesn't need a reproduction repro, here is the steps to reproduce

Create post with "" tag separating excerpt and post content.

What is expected?

Display full excerpt.

What is actually happening?

See post summary is just 500 of first characters and not the full excerpt.

Other relevant information

I fixed this in child template BaseListLayout.vue with code:

        <p class="ui-post-summary" v-if="page.excerpt"  v-html="page.excerpt"></p>
        <p class="ui-post-summary" v-else>
          {{ page.frontmatter.summary || page.summary }}
        </p>

• npx vuepress info:
  Environment Info:

  System:
  OS: Linux 5.3 Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
  CPU: (2) x64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum 8175M CPU @ 2.50GHz
  Binaries:
  Node: 8.10.0 - /usr/bin/node
  Yarn: Not Found
  npm: 3.5.2 - /usr/bin/npm
  Browsers:
  Chrome: Not Found
  Firefox: Not Found
  npmPackages:
  @vuepress/core: 1.4.1
  @vuepress/theme-default: 1.4.1
  vuepress: ^1.4.0 => 1.4.1
  npmGlobalPackages:
  vuepress: Not Found

[billyyyyy3320]

I thought current approach (Defining summary in frontmatter) is enough, so Content Excerpt isn't supported in this theme.

It's more like a feature request than a bug report. Thanks for raising this.