Mandatory Excerpts for WordPress
Causes the excerpt to be required before a post can be published. Supports both editor types (classic and block aka gutenberg).
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·100 active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Mandatory Excerpts for WordPress is a WordPress excerpt plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 6.5K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4.0+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Top alternative: Advanced Excerpt.
5/51 reviews
100active installs
6.5K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
An excerpt is a (usually) brief, text-only post summary. It is used in various places of a theme when a summary of a post is needed, such as on your blog page and archive pages for terms.
Excerpts are either manually crafted or (usually poorly) automatically extracted from the main post content. Hand crafted ones are better because
- they avoid things like sentences being cut off in the mid…
- they allow you create an actual summary and not just the first x words from the post content
- they allow you to do better SEO targeting
- they look better
This plugin will enforce the use of hand-crafted excerpts by your users by preventing a post without an excerpt from being published.
Classic editor support is based on the work done by Scott Walkinshaw and other contributors, found here.
Upgrading fro…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
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Changelog
1.1.2
- WP 6.9 tested ✅
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