I am creating some blog pages with example codes, and I would like to show the codes in excerpts, but WordPress automatically excludes code blocks from excerpts, is there a workaround for showing code blocks in the excerpt?

I am creating some blog pages with example codes, and I would like to show the codes in excerpts, but WordPress automatically excludes code blocks from excerpts, is there a workaround for showing code blocks in the excerpt?

• block-editor
• excerpt
• code

1 Answer 1

Try getting it in raw form from the DB:

global $wpdb;
$post_excerpt = $wpdb->get_var(
        $wpdb->prepare(
            "SELECT post_excerpt FROM $wpdb->posts
             WHERE ID = %d
            ",
            $post->ID
        )
    );