Fixing Missing Excerpts Box, Post Tags Box and Custom Field Box in WordPress

By Arun Basil Lal — on June 19, 2011 — 4 Comments ↓

I have been bugged with some questions lately. Questions like:

• I upgraded WordPress to the latest version and now my Excerpts Box is missing.
• Post Tags have been removed from latests WordPress versions?
• I cannot find where to add custom fields, can you help?

I checked my WordPress installation and found everything in place and that bothered me at first. Then I looked into one of their installations and found the solution really simple.

Go to your Post Editor and Look for a drop down deck called Screen Options (towards right top corner). Check the following images.

Click that and the following Deck will open up. You can Hide or Un-hide the widgets you like using the check-boxes up there.

That settles everything. Peace!

Hello, I am Arun Basil Lal. Thank you for reading!

I am a WordPress product developer and creator of Image Attributes Pro. I am passionate about solving problems and travelling the world.

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4 Comments.

1. ravi says:

   June 19, 2011 at 16:02

   i tried latest version of wordpress but it is running good… you should upload it again

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2. SEO says:

   July 12, 2011 at 00:03

   There is nothing wrong with the Latest Version of the WordPress. I am using the 3.2 Version which has fixed many issues and its quite fast to use too. May be re-installing it again can fix your issues

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3. Naser@Blogging Tips says:

   July 29, 2011 at 18:19

   I also updated to newest version but no errors crept in for me.

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4. Carl Reid says:

   September 16, 2011 at 00:13

   thanks for the help Arun… I was wondering what happened to excerpts and discussion boxes myself. I thought there was some kind of error during the upgrade…

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