Best excerpt plugins for WordPress

Advanced Excerpt

#541

by WPKube3 months ago

Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts

Toggle wpautop

Down in the last 7 days:10#2,209

by Jonathan Desrosiers5 years ago

Easily disable the default wpautop filter on a post by post basis.

Easy Custom Auto Excerpt

Down in the last 7 days:11#2,713

by todiadiyatmo2 years ago

Auto Excerpt for your posts on home, search and archive pages. Customize Read More button and thumbnail image. Easy to configure and have a lot of opt …

Read More Excerpt Link

Up in the last 7 days:18#3,991

by Tim Eckel9 months ago

Create "Read More" link after post excerpt instead of ellipsis [...] Also modify excerpt length.

Page Excerpt

Down in the last 7 days:13#4,084

by Jeremy Massel9 years ago

This plugin adds the same functionality of the excerpt feature in posts to pages.

RSS Image Feed

Down in the last 7 days:13#4,668

by tepelstreel9 years ago

The RSS Image Feed adds the first image of a post to your feeds, even in firefox and even if you only display the excerpt.

Empty P Tag

Up in the last 7 days:7#7,643

by Husain Ahmed2 months ago

Remove empty paragraph and break tags, and optionally disable WordPress automatic formatting (wpautop).

WP-UTF8-Excerpt

Up in the last 7 days:7#7,809

by BettyJJ5 years ago

This plugin generates a better excerpt for multi-byte language users (Chinese, for example). Besides, it keeps the html tags in the excerpt.

Storefront Blog Excerpts

Up in the last 7 days:23#7,816

by wooassist2 years ago

Change the post content area on your archive pages to show the excerpt instead of the full content.

Excerpt Editor

Up in the last 7 days:46#8,965

by Andrew Ozz17 years ago

Quick edit or create excerpts for both Posts and Pages, auto-generate and append excerpts or replace the content with excerpts.

Recent Posts Widget Plus

Up in the last 7 days:3#9,050

by Johan van der Wijk3 years ago

This plugin allows you to display the most recent posts with an excerpt in a WordPress sidebar widget area.

Excerpt Tools

Up in the last 7 days:7#10,746

by Marcus Downing6 years ago

Change the default text and description of the excerpt box, add an excerpt box to pages and show a jQuery character counter and limiter.

StripTease

Up in the last 7 days:9#10,907

by Guy4 years ago

Strips the #more fragments from the end of Read More teaser links so they link to full posts.

Remove Blank P Tag

Down in the last 7 days:30#11,203

by Vishit Shah1 year ago

This plugin remove extra p and br tags from the_content and the_excerpt.

PJW Page Excerpt

Down in the last 7 days:43#11,374

by Peter Westwood15 years ago

This plugin allows you to specify a specifc excerpt for WordPress pages.

Posts per Cat

Down in the last 7 days:208#11,755

by Aleksandar Urošević1 year ago

Group recent posts by category and show them inside boxes organized to columns.

Remove Wpautop

Up in the last 7 days:34#12,409

by Rahul Kumar Singh6 years ago

This plugin remove extra p and br tags from the_content and the_excerpt.

Excerpt Length

Up in the last 7 days:58#14,066

by vertino17 years ago

Adds an Excerpt Length field setting to the Reading Settings section, this is used to set the number of words that appear in the the_excerpt().

Mandatory Excerpts for WordPress

Down in the last 7 days:134#15,284

by theMikeD10 months ago

Causes the excerpt to be required before a post can be published. Supports both editor types (classic and block aka gutenberg).

Read More Button

Up in the last 7 days:103#15,537

by Jose Varghese2 months ago

Easily add a customizable Read More button to expand long posts. Reveal hidden content automatically and smoothly without a page refresh.

mPress Custom Feed Excerpts

Down in the last 7 days:8#16,313

by Micah Wood9 years ago

Customize your feed excerpts by simply using the <!--more--> tag in posts.

Embed Post

Down in the last 7 days:73#16,643

by Ghanshyam Khanal6 years ago

Embed a Post within another Post or Page using [embed_post] shortcode.

WP CN Excerpt

Up in the last 7 days:54#16,656

by overtrue10 years ago

WordPress高级摘要插件。支持在后台设置摘要长度，摘要最后的显示字符，以及允许哪些html标记在摘要中显示。

Auto Summarize Post Content

Down in the last 7 days:51#17,116

by blogvii2 years ago

Auto-summarize content and display it at the top or bottom of the post.

Multiple Excerpt Lengths

Up in the last 7 days:181#18,668

by Raaj Trambadia7 years ago

Allows you to change the lengths of WordPress excerpts (the_excerpt) that are present at various pages/templates throughout your site.

Ultra Excerpts

Down in the last 7 days:103#21,397

by Exsamp2 years ago

Customize excerpts on your wordpress site. Features include custom length by words and letters, removed all HTML mark up, removing headings, overridi …

Custom Excerpts

Up in the last 7 days:125#21,637

by Seans0n18 years ago

Custom Excerpts allows you to create a custom excerpt length, choose HTML tags to allow and whether to make the link nofollow or dofollow.

TDD Recent Posts

Down in the last 7 days:64#23,313

by Taylor Dewey15 years ago

Simple widget that displays the recent posts with a short content preview. Control the length of the content preview and number of posts

Expandable Dashboard Recent Comments

Down in the last 7 days:3#23,524

by Scott Reilly1 year ago

Enables in-place expansion of excerpts in the admin dashboard 'Comments' section of the 'Activity' widget to view full comments.

Torknado Page Excerpt

Down in the last 7 days:34#24,308

by Tyler Tork4 years ago

Pages, like Posts, can have an Excerpt field to override the automatic "first 55 words" excerpt. However, many themes don't enable edit …

Disable WYSIWYG

Down in the last 7 days:296#24,673

by Sparanoid27 days ago

Disable TinyMCE Visual Editor (WYSIWYG editor) totally completely permanently forever

Easy Excerpt

Down in the last 7 days:268#25,157

by Fredrik Malmgren15 years ago

Manage your posts excerpt with Easy Excerpt. Change excerpt length, ending and "read more"-link from WordPress admin.

McNinja Post Styles

#27,163

by TomHarrigan12 years ago

It's like Post Formats, but actually useful. Every post is unique, start treating them that way.

Name

Down in the last 7 days:24#28,502

by ChrisHurst12 years ago

Use the [children-excerpt] shortcode where you want to display the excerpts of the child pages.

Excerpt below Title

Down in the last 7 days:245#29,035

by Kuuak8 years ago

Move the excerpt metabox below the post title

Get Better Excerpt

Down in the last 7 days:246#29,544

by jamieschmid10 years ago

The Get Better Excerpt plugin works almost identical to the built in get_the_excerpt() and the_excerpt() functions except it returns whole words inste …

Webspero Read More Toggle

#31,994

by Ayush Guleria1 year ago

Adds a simple "Read More / Read Less" toggle to long content using lightweight JavaScript. Ideal for blogs, FAQs, or excerpts.

TNC AI Excerpt Generator

Down in the last 7 days:663#34,227

by Abdul Awal Uzzal3 years ago

Use the Power of OpenAI to Generate Summary of your posts & use as excerpt or SEO Meta Description!

Plastic Post Style

#34,679

plastic-post-style16 years ago

記事本文と抜粋の出力を調整・カスタマイズします。Configure content&excerpt styles of all posts with various configurations.

WP Snapshot

Up in the last 7 days:2,159#35,120

by darrinb12 years ago

Easily display a summary of post text or custom text.

BZC AI Summary Box

Up in the last 7 days:2,953#36,221

by BZC7 months ago

Add an editable AI summary box to posts and pages. Style colors, border radius and position from the admin panel.

Autofields

#36,674

by binnyva12 years ago

AutoFields will auto fill the Excerpt and add an Image custom field based on the data you entered into the contents editor.

VA Excerpt From Content

#37,516

by kuck1u10 years ago

Automatically create the excerpt from content.

First Post Full Length

Up in the last 7 days:1,260#37,535

by Bernhard Kau11 years ago

This plugin will show the first post with its full text but all the others with the text after the "more" tag

Varsayılan İçerik

Up in the last 7 days:6,039#39,012

by sustun16 years ago

Yeni yazılara; varsayılan başlık, özet ve içerik metinleri girilebilmesine olanak sağlayan bir eklentidir.

Post summarizer

Up in the last 7 days:4,503#39,202

post-summarizer18 years ago

This plugin create an automatic excerpt of a post when it is saved or published. The excerpt created is a coherent piece of text containing the most i …

content-resize

Up in the last 7 days:7,371#40,017

by viniciusgomes15 years ago

Plugin simples para criar resumos com determinado número de palavras de um conteúdo.

PostDivider

Up in the last 7 days:5,417#40,364

by loveless17 years ago

Allows the user to select text before and after the MORE tag using custom hooks.

Return Excerpt

Down in the last 7 days:3,558#40,614

by ykawato14 years ago

Returns the excerpt outside the loop.

Excerpt character limiter

Up in the last 7 days:5,351#41,842

by matteotrap16 years ago

It will basically add a character countdown to the panel titlebar, and it will truncate the text when available characters drop to zero.