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Two or three sentences answering "what is this about" before somebody decides whether to read.

The excerpt is what people see in listings and in social previews. The TL;DR is what they see once they're already inside the post, so each needs its own text.

A TL;DR card with a short summary of the article and a Generated with AI note — A TL;DR card at the top of a post.

#Set it up

Use the advanced post layout

At VerbaTheme OptionsSingle PostGeneral, set Single Post Source to Advanced. On the default Native source the TL;DR settings stay closed and the card never renders.

Switch the block on

Go to VerbaTheme OptionsSingle PostBody, group Summary (TL;DR), and check Show TL;DR summary. It's on by default.

Write the summary on the post

In the post editor, in the Editorial panel under the content, fill in the Summary (TL;DR) field. An empty field means no card on that post.

The switch on its own shows nothing. If the card is missing, either the source is still Native or the post field is empty.

#Appearance

The title above the card. Empty removes the heading and leaves the text.

An optional glyph in front of the heading.

The HTML tag of that heading. For most posts a paragraph is the honest choice, because a TL;DR isn't a section of the article.

How large it looks, independently of the tag.

The surface the card is painted on. Default, secondary, accent, inverted, or dark.

Tag and size are explained once, in Reading aids.

#Writing a good one

Three or four sentences at most. A longer TL;DR starts competing with the first screen of the article.

If your site runs both the TL;DR and key points, give them separate jobs. The summary answers "what is this about." The points answer "what do I take away." Saying the same thing twice, one paragraph apart, wastes the reader's attention on both.

Can the summary be written automatically?

Yes, with the AI Blog integration, which fills the Summary (TL;DR) field in the background and can mark it as AI-written for readers. See AI Blog integration. The Summarize with AI row is a different feature: it sends the reader to an AI chat and stores nothing on the post.

The field is greyed out with "AI wrote this"

The AI Blog integration wrote it. Click Take it over to edit it yourself; from then on AI leaves that field alone.

Does the TL;DR affect search results?

It's ordinary text on the page, so it can be read and quoted like any other. It doesn't replace your meta description, which is set by your SEO plugin.

Last updated 1 Oct 2026

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