Best excerpts plugins for WordPress
The most popular excerpts plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Post Excerpt leads with 2K+ active installs, ahead of Recent Posts with Excerpts (700+) and Simply Excerpts (500+). All 23 plugins tagged “excerpts” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 excerpts plugins
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Advanced Post ExcerptThe most installed excerpts plugin, with 2K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
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Recent Posts with Excerpts700+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.8.34.
- 3.
Simply Excerpts500+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 8 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 4.
Excerpts for Pages400+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1.
- 5.
Page Excerpts100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
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Ultimate Sticky Posts Widget100+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 5 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
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Post and Page Excerpt Widgets80+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.5.33.
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Multiple Excerpt Lengths70+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
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Custom Excerpts40+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.7.
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Augment Types30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.99.
All 23 plugins tagged “excerpts”
Advanced Post Excerpt
Down in the last 7 days:2#4,455by Steve Grunwell2 years ago
Replace the default Post Excerpt meta box with a superior editing experience.
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 13/day
Recent Posts with Excerpts
Up in the last 7 days:33#7,997by Stephanie Leary10 years ago
A widget that lists your most recent posts with optional excerpts.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Simply Excerpts
Down in the last 7 days:4#8,849by A. Jones8 months ago
A simple plugin for exceprts that allows you to change the word count and to replace the elipsis (...) with text. Not compatible with all themes.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Excerpts for Pages
Down in the last 7 days:13#9,304by Joan Boluda9 years ago
This plugin adds excerpts for Pages
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Page Excerpts
Down in the last 7 days:54#13,391by Jonathan Brinley14 years ago
Adds an excerpt field to pages, and provides a widget for displaying page excerpts
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ultimate Sticky Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:4#16,477by Pieter Ferrreira8 years ago
This Widget works well to display sticky/posts or both.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.6(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post and Page Excerpt Widgets
#18,056by Stephanie Leary10 years ago
Creates widgets that display excerpts from posts or pages in the sidebar.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Multiple Excerpt Lengths
Up in the last 7 days:181#18,668by 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.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Custom Excerpts
Up in the last 7 days:125#21,637by 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.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Augment Types
Down in the last 7 days:105#23,556by GAFT1 year ago
Add essential functionalities to WordPress Post Types.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Recent Posts Ultimate
Up in the last 7 days:105#24,154by Douglas "BearlyDoug" Hazard3 years ago
RPU is the ultimate recent posts plugin, even allowing HTML to be displayed. Quick, easy and efficient!
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Content Encoded To RSS Feed
#24,638by No Frills Plugins1 year ago
[Previous content remains the same until changelog]
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Pauls Latest Posts
Down in the last 7 days:12#24,827by paulmac17 years ago
Display latest posts with excerpts and comments in a sidebar widget.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Excerpts Fader
Down in the last 7 days:350#24,908by Jack Reichert9 years ago
Creates a widget that takes randomly a number of excerpts from a category of your choice and fades them in and out.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Catalyst Excerpts Plus
Down in the last 7 days:310#26,353by Michael Davis14 years ago
Catalyst Excerpts Plus builds on the Catalyst Excerpts widget for users of the Catalyst framework.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Page Excerpts for WordPress Three
Down in the last 7 days:1,306#30,653by Adam Harley (Kawauso)15 years ago
Add excerpts to pages the WordPress 3.x way. Less code, less overhead.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Extra Options
Up in the last 7 days:340#32,812by demetris (Demetris Kikizas)16 years ago
A collection of tweaks to improve your WordPress experience and your site’s performance.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
API REST Posts
#33,306by Miguel Fuentes4 months ago
Adds REST API endpoints for latest posts and latest posts by category, with configurable date format and excerpt length.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
OpenAI Content Assistant via ChatGPT
Up in the last 7 days:12,477#35,330by markupus2 years ago
ChatGPT - OpenAI helps to create a title & an excerpt based on the content of post using ChatGPT API.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
End Content
#38,696by slee18 years ago
Allows you to add content to the end of pages, posts or both.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
blogsiread
Up in the last 7 days:2,038#41,549by fusionstream13 years ago
Displays user-definable content from other blogs (via wordpress Links [RSS]) as a widget in your blog in a highly customisable format.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Kognetiks AI Summaries
#42,620by kognetiks8 days ago
Kognetiks AI Summaries - Effortless Excerpts, Powered by Intelligence.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
Baer Block-Aware Excerpts
Down in the last 7 days:14,980#71,401by anthonybaer2 months ago
Create predictable, block-aware excerpts across archives, Query Loops, feeds and REST responses.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day