post_excerpt

The post_excerpt field of the {wp_}posts table stores the excerpt for the post (or attachment). By default, is unused in Pages.

By the Web Warlock, Wednesday, 28/Jul/2010 18:00

Adding excerpts to Pages

By the Web Warlock, Wednesday, 28/Jul/2010 3:47

To add excerpts to Pages, from 3.0 on you just need to add the support for the excerpt feature for the page post type with add_post_type_support called in the init hook.