Best ellipsis plugins for WordPress
The most popular ellipsis plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Read More Excerpt Link leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of Read More WP (1K+) and Text Snipper (50+). All 3 plugins tagged “ellipsis” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 ellipsis plugins
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Read More Excerpt LinkThe most installed ellipsis plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 6 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
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Read More WP1K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 3 weeks ago.
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Text Snipper50+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
All 3 plugins tagged “ellipsis”
Read More Excerpt Link
Up in the last 7 days:18#3,991by Tim Eckel9 months ago
Create "Read More" link after post excerpt instead of ellipsis [...] Also modify excerpt length.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Read More WP
Down in the last 7 days:2#5,596by Bolton Studios LLC21 days ago
Create excerpts and hide text with an elegant toggle button to show more.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 26/day
Text Snipper
Up in the last 7 days:174#21,153by jordanwebdev10 years ago
An easy to use text truncator that trims down multi-line overflowing text and adds an ellipses("...") to it.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day