Excerpt Old Posts
Shows excerpted content for older posts. This allows more items in the feed while working around the Feedburner 512K feed limit.
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·10 active installs·Updated 14 years agoAs of April 2026, Excerpt Old Posts is a WordPress feeds plugin with 10 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.9K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2012. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: GN Publisher: Google News Compatible….
5/51 reviews
10active installs
1.9K+total downloads
14 yearssince 2012
Overview
WordPress feeds offer a choice between Full Text or Summary. The Full Text option is preferable in a lot of cases (e.g. for a podcast), but the feed can grow very large.
One problem with a large feed is that if can exceed the Feedburner 512K limit. Your feed may be valid when you first set it up, but eventually when your feed gets big enough, Feedburner will stop updating.
This plugin gives you another setting (available on your Settings / Reading admin page) which sets how many posts should have Full Text. All posts after that will be shown as Summary. This gives you the best of both options – Full Text for new posts, and Summary for older posts.
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| WordPress | 3.0+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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