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Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts
Easily disable the default wpautop filter on a post by post basis.
Auto Excerpt for your posts on home, search and archive pages. Customize Read More button and thumbnail image. Easy to configure and have a lot of opt …
Create "Read More" link after post excerpt instead of ellipsis [...] Also modify excerpt length.
This plugin adds the same functionality of the excerpt feature in posts to pages.
Provides custom recent comments widget with extra features such as display avatar, comment excerpt and much more!
The RSS Image Feed adds the first image of a post to your feeds, even in firefox and even if you only display the excerpt.
This plugin hides empty paragraphs and make your butyfull design without breaking design.
Change the post content area on your archive pages to show the excerpt instead of the full content.
This plugin generates a better excerpt for multi-byte language users (Chinese, for example). Besides, it keeps the html tags in the excerpt.
This plugin allows you to display the most recent posts with an excerpt in a WordPress sidebar widget area.
Quick edit or create excerpts for both Posts and Pages, auto-generate and append excerpts or replace the content with excerpts.
This plugin remove extra p and br tags from the_content and the_excerpt.
This plugin remove extra p and br tags from the_content and the_excerpt.
This plugin allows you to specify a specifc excerpt for WordPress pages.
Change the default text and description of the excerpt box, add an excerpt box to pages and show a jQuery character counter and limiter.
Strips the #more fragments from the end of Read More teaser links so they link to full posts.
Group recent posts by category and show them inside boxes organized to columns.
WordPress高级摘要插件。支持在后台设置摘要长度,摘要最后的显示字符,以及允许哪些html标记在摘要中显示。
Causes the excerpt to be required before a post can be published. Supports both editor types (classic and block aka gutenberg).
Customize your feed excerpts by simply using the <!--more--> tag in posts.
A plugin used to embed the preview of a link similar to facebook and linkedin
Embed a Post within another Post or Page using [embed_post] shortcode.
Auto-summarize content and display it at the top or bottom of the post.
Adds an Excerpt Length field setting to the Reading Settings section, this is used to set the number of words that appear in the the_excerpt().
Allows you to change the lengths of WordPress excerpts (the_excerpt) that are present at various pages/templates throughout your site.
Customize excerpts on your wordpress site. Features include custom length by words and letters, removed all HTML mark up, removing headings, overridi …
A free extension for the premium widget Term and Category Based Posts Widget
Custom Excerpts allows you to create a custom excerpt length, choose HTML tags to allow and whether to make the link nofollow or dofollow.
Disable TinyMCE Visual Editor (WYSIWYG editor) totally completely permanently forever
Simple widget that displays the recent posts with a short content preview. Control the length of the content preview and number of posts
Enables in-place expansion of excerpts in the admin dashboard 'Comments' section of the 'Activity' widget to view full comments.
Pages, like Posts, can have an Excerpt field to override the automatic "first 55 words" excerpt. However, many themes don't enable edit …
Manage your posts excerpt with Easy Excerpt. Change excerpt length, ending and "read more"-link from WordPress admin.
Move the excerpt metabox below the post title
It's like Post Formats, but actually useful. Every post is unique, start treating them that way.