Easy Custom Auto Excerpt
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 …
4.5(151 reviews)
·6.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Easy Custom Auto Excerpt is a WordPress home plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 4.5/5 rating from 151 reviews. It has been downloaded 320K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 39% this week. Top alternative: Front Page Category.
4.5/5151 reviews
6.0K+active installs
320K+total downloads
13 yearssince 2013
Overview
Easy Custom Auto Excerpt is a WordPress plugin to cut/excerpt your posts displayed in home, search or archive pages. This plugin also enables you to customize the read more button text and thumbnail image. Just activate the plugin, configure some options and you’re good to go 🙂
ECAE only works on themes that call the_content() or the_excerpt() on home, search & archive pages. ECAE does not support themes that use custom functions to display excerpt, like Total, OceanWP, Writee, and Customizr.
The free version comes with everything you need to auto excerpt your content.
Features:
- Excerpt your posts based on character length.
- Choose to excerpt your posts on home, search, archive, or custom archive pages.
- Align text (…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Excellent, easy to use & setup
by dungeonspossums·6 months ago
Does what it says on the tin. Very simple, very satisfied.
works totally fine
by eoik·11 months ago
really easy, perfect.
i’m using it with the theme twenty twenty-one.
- This topic was modified 11 months, 3 weeks ago by eoik.
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by andersen4700·1 year ago
Gode muligheder for tilpasning af oversigter.
Perfect!
by linuxbcn·1 year ago
Simple and eficient!
BON
by bonmart·2 years ago
Good
Download Trends
Today: 13Yesterday: 17This week: 117Period total: 6K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.5+ requiredTested up to 6.5.8 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.5
76.1%
v2.4
22.0%
Other
1.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.5.0
- Fixed bug: Password-protected post content should not be shown
Contributors
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