Multiple Excerpt Lengths
Allows you to change the lengths of WordPress excerpts (the_excerpt) that are present at various pages/templates throughout your site.
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·70 active installs·Updated 6 years agoAs of April 2026, Multiple Excerpt Lengths is a WordPress excerpt plugin with 70 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: Advanced Excerpt.
5/51 reviews
70active installs
4.8K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Do you have excerpts on multiple pages? Do you want to have them at different lengths?
With the Multiple Excerpt Lengths plugin, you can now control the length (in words) of excerpts present at various different templates throughout your WordPress site.
By default, WordPress sets the length of excerpts at 55 words. It is fairly simple to change this length – it only requires you to add a short piece of code to your functions.php file. However, once you add that code, it changes the length of ALL the excerpts present on your site, and you may not want that.
For example, you might want to shorten the length of the excerpts on your Front Page where you have 3 recent blog posts displayed horizontally in columns but you might not want to change the length of the excerpts on your Blog Page (whi…
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 5.2.24 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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Changelog
1.1
*Added support for Search pages
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