Best post excerpt plugins for WordPress
The most popular post excerpt plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Excerpt leads with 80K+ active installs, ahead of Ultra Excerpts (40+) and Always Show Excerpts (fewer than 10). All 3 plugins tagged “post excerpt” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 post excerpt plugins
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Advanced ExcerptThe most installed post excerpt plugin, with 80K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 101 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
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Ultra Excerpts40+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
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Always Show ExcerptsFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
All 3 plugins tagged “post excerpt”
Advanced Excerpt
#541by WPKube3 months ago
Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts
- Installs
- 80K+
- Rating
- 4.3(101)
- Downloads
- 296/day
Ultra Excerpts
Down in the last 7 days:103#21,397by 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 …
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Always Show Excerpts
Down in the last 7 days:2,882#61,198by keith_wp1 year ago
On selected types of indexes, choose to always show the excerpts for a post instead of the full post content.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day