Automatic excerpt is not shown with the_excerpt() command

By default, the_excerpt(), doesn’t uses the post/page content wysiwyg, it has its own textarea, that by default is not visible, you need to enable it first via screen options.

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After you checked this checkbox you can scroll down to the bottom of the post/page and see a new textarea, this is the excerpt.

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If you want to use the content (wysiwyg, the_conetnt() or get_the_content()) as excerpt, you will need to use wp_trim_words.
Something like this.

// the second argument is how many words to trim, default is 55
<?= wp_trim_words(get_the_content(), 30); ?>

Anothe option, if you want to keep the html structure would be to do this.

<?= force_balance_tags(html_entity_decode(wp_trim_words(htmlentities(wpautop(get_the_content())), 30))); ?>

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