Quick edit or create excerpts for both Posts and Pages, auto-generate and append excerpts or replace the content with excerpts.
As of April 2026, Excerpt Editor is a WordPress seo plugin with 500 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 77K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Last updated 16 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time….
Excerpt Editor provides a convenient place for creating and editing all excerpts. It can also add custom excerpts for pages (not possible without a plugin). Features: auto-creating excerpts when publishing new Posts and Pages, displaying customisable excerpts from the content for posts without an excerpt, appending excerpts from the latest posts to each Post or from the sub-pages to each Page, replacing the content for all archive and tags pages with excerpts (eliminates content duplication for SEO).
The excerpts can be used in the RSS feed, displayed on the Home or Archive pages and/or used for meta descriptions. The excerpts can be in any language supported by WordPress and the plugin contains .pot file to facilitate translations.
| WordPress | 2.6+ requiredTested up to 2.9.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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