Best excerpt length plugins for WordPress
The most popular excerpt length plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Change Excerpt Length leads with 400+ active installs, ahead of Excerpt Tools (300+). All 2 plugins tagged “excerpt length” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 excerpt length plugins
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Change Excerpt LengthThe most installed excerpt length plugin, with 400+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
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Excerpt Tools300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.0.
All 2 plugins tagged “excerpt length”
Change Excerpt Length
Up in the last 7 days:6#9,851by Ashkar1 year ago
Allows users to change the excerpt length from the WordPress Reading Settings page.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Excerpt Tools
Up in the last 7 days:7#10,746by 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.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day