Advanced Post Excerpt
Replace the default Post Excerpt meta box with a superior editing experience.
5(4 reviews)
·2.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 years agoAs of April 2026, Advanced Post Excerpt is a WordPress tinyMCE plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 4 reviews. It has been downloaded 22K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 2 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 17% this week. Top alternative: Black Studio TinyMCE Widget.
5/54 reviews
2.0K+active installs
22K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
WordPress post excerpts can be a great way to hand-craft the summary of your content. Unfortunately, writing post excerpts isn’t as nice of an experience as what you find elsewhere in WordPress. Want to include links in your excerpts, or bold some text? Hopefully you know some HTML!
Advanced Post Excerpts is designed to change that, by giving your editors an easy, intuitive interface for writing great post excerpts.
For complete details and/or to contribute to ongoing development, please visit this project on GitHub.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Perfect!!!
by bonnie333·2 years ago
Perfect!!!
Advanced Post Excerpt, Where have you been all my life?
by Becky Melton·5 years ago
This plugin resolves the most frustrating part of blog excerpts. (no HTML formatting) This makes post archive pages so much more versatile. Thanks for this plugin!
Perfect
by Eddie B·5 years ago
A simple plugin that does exactly what it says in the description. I now have the ability to have rich text editing in my post excerpt… exactly what I wanted. Many thanks to the author!
Just what I was looking for – and it works perfectly.
by Gabor Lippert·9 years ago
Oh, and special thanks for lifting the excerpt field up from the page bottom – that position was really annoying.
Download Trends
Today: 8Yesterday: 5This week: 49Period total: 2K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.5+ requiredTested up to 6.4.8 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.0
98.3%
v0.2
1.8%
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Changelog
For a full list of changes, please see the full changelog on GitHub.
1.0.0
- Added compatibility with the WordPress block editor (a.k.a. “Gutenberg”).
- Bumped minimum PHP version to 7.0.
Contributors
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