Browse and compare 21 excerpts plugins. Data updated daily from official WordPress.org sources.
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Replace the default Post Excerpt meta box with a superior editing experience.
A widget that lists your most recent posts with optional excerpts.
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.
This plugin adds excerpts for Pages
Adds an excerpt field to pages, and provides a widget for displaying page excerpts
This Widget works well to display sticky/posts or both.
Allows you to change the lengths of WordPress excerpts (the_excerpt) that are present at various pages/templates throughout your site.
Creates widgets that display excerpts from posts or pages in the sidebar.
Custom Excerpts allows you to create a custom excerpt length, choose HTML tags to allow and whether to make the link nofollow or dofollow.
Creates a widget that takes randomly a number of excerpts from a category of your choice and fades them in and out.
Add essential functionalities to WordPress Post Types.
Catalyst Excerpts Plus builds on the Catalyst Excerpts widget for users of the Catalyst framework.
RPU is the ultimate recent posts plugin, even allowing HTML to be displayed. Quick, easy and efficient!
Display latest posts with excerpts and comments in a sidebar widget.
[Previous content remains the same until changelog]
ChatGPT - OpenAI helps to create a title & an excerpt based on the content of post using ChatGPT API.
Kognetiks AI Summaries - Effortless Excerpts, Power by Intelligence.
Displays user-definable content from other blogs (via wordpress Links [RSS]) as a widget in your blog in a highly customisable format.
Allows you to add content to the end of pages, posts or both.
A collection of tweaks to improve your WordPress experience and your site’s performance.
Add excerpts to pages the WordPress 3.x way. Less code, less overhead.