If working with a lot of editors, who either don't know how to use WP or don't pay attention, this plugin helps you by adding an excerpt aut …
As of April 2026, Automated Editing is a WordPress automation plugin with 10 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 4.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: OttoKit: All-in-One Automation Platform.
The Automated Editing was made, because there are so many people, who just forget to add an excerpt or tags to the post, when they publish it. For several reasons that can be annoying. So, every time a post is saved, the plugin just checks, whether there is an excerpt or not. If there is no excerpt, it will check, whether you have defined some length or type of excerpt. If you haven’t, the plugin just creates a post excerpt by cutting off all short codes of the content and taking the first 3 sentences as the excerpt. The same happens with the ‘more’ tag. It will be automatically set, if you want it. If you don’t define a number of sentences after which the tag has to be inserted, the plugin will insert it after 5 sentences.
Since version 1.4 you have the possibilit…
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 4.5.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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