# Post excerpt not showing + published post not matching draft

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/post-excerpt-not-showing-published-post-not-matching-draft/21725>\
**Category:** Developer help\
**Created:** [April 9, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/post-excerpt-not-showing-published-post-not-matching-draft/21725 "2021-04-09T16:07:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![ghostgal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/ghostgal/32/11441_2.png) [@ghostgal](https://forum.ghost.org/u/ghostgal)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/post-excerpt-not-showing-published-post-not-matching-draft/21725/1 "2021-04-09T16:07:32Z")

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Hi,  
After upgrading to 4.0, I noticed that the published post doesn’t quite match what I wrote in draft in terms of spacing between paragraphs. Like, I can see in my draft that a paragraph starts right below a headline, but in the finished post there’s extra space as if I’d just inserted an extra

It’s not THAT much of a problem, but I’d still like to know why this is. Anyone know?

Also, the post excerpt doesn’t show up as it’s supposed to. How can I fix it? 🙂

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![brightthemes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/brightthemes/32/25099_2.png) [@brightthemes](https://forum.ghost.org/u/brightthemes)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/post-excerpt-not-showing-published-post-not-matching-draft/21725/2 "2021-04-09T16:28:05Z")

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Can you share some details? Like which theme you are using, a link to your website and maybe some screenshot of what the issue is. Otherwise it’s hard to tell what the issue is.

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**Author:** ![ghostgal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/ghostgal/32/11441_2.png) [@ghostgal](https://forum.ghost.org/u/ghostgal)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/post-excerpt-not-showing-published-post-not-matching-draft/21725/3 "2021-04-09T17:20:37Z")

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Sure, sorry.

I’m using the liebling theme (version 0.9.2).

In draft, it looks like this:

 ![Screenshot 2021-04-09 at 19.17.52](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/c/c514a884ae080783cf3d9dec73ca042d9d9cebad.png)

And the published post looks like this:

 ![Screenshot 2021-04-09 at 19.19.19](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/d/df97d5d2d7867e10cc6b5d670c8caa0bf87f76d4.png)

This wasn’t an issue with Ghost 3, and I haven’t changed my theme or anything 🙂

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**Author:** ![brightthemes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/brightthemes/32/25099_2.png) [@brightthemes](https://forum.ghost.org/u/brightthemes)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/post-excerpt-not-showing-published-post-not-matching-draft/21725/4 "2021-04-10T15:37:07Z")

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Probably the style of the Admin editor changed somewhat regarding the spacing between elements.  
That view is just the editor, not a preview of the content with the actual theme. For that you have the `Preview` button available for drafts:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/5/5c44fe0cb30751c5fc8342ec7335126f9825e460.png)

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**Author:** ![ghostgal](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/ghostgal/32/11441_2.png) [@ghostgal](https://forum.ghost.org/u/ghostgal)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/post-excerpt-not-showing-published-post-not-matching-draft/21725/5 "2021-04-10T15:43:03Z")

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Ohhhhh, right, of course. I didn’t realise before now that preview disappears after the post is published, even when you go back in to edit it. So that’s why I didn’t even think of that.  
Well, thank you for clearing that up for me! 🙂