Description of one of the so-called post type features.
Posts
post_excerpt table field
By the Web Warlock, Wednesday, 28/Jul/2010 18:00
The post_excerpt field stores the excerpt for the post (or attachment). By default, is unused in Pages.
add_post_type_support
By the Web Warlock, Wednesday, 28/Jul/2010 4:43
<?php add_post_type_support( $post_type, $feature ) ?>
excerpt post type feature
By the Web Warlock, Wednesday, 28/Jul/2010 3:51
The excerpt
post type feature indicates whether the excerpt meta box will be displayed in the edit post screen.