Read More Excerpt Link
Create "Read More" link after post excerpt instead of ellipsis [...] Also modify excerpt length.
5(6 reviews)
·3.0K+ active installs·Updated 2 months agoAs of April 2026, Read More Excerpt Link is a WordPress link plugin with 3.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews. It has been downloaded 64K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9.0+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are up 31% this week. Top alternative: Custom Post Type Permalinks.
5/56 reviews
3.0K+active installs
64K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Try it out on a free dummy site here => https://demo.tastewp.com/read-more-excerpt-link
When WordPress makes an excerpt from your post content, it crops the content and adds an ellipsis […] to the end. This plugin changes the ellipsis to a Read More link to the full post content.
You can change the Read More link text to anything you wish from the Read More Excerpt submenu on the WordPress Settings menu.
Also from the Read More Excerpt submenu, you can specify the excerpt word length (WordPress defaults to 55 words).
Additionally, you can force the Read More link to show even when an excerpt is entered or when a read more tag is added to the content. This is turned on from the Read More Excerpt submenu with the Show More Frequently checkbox.
The Read More link uses the class rea…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Works great – even still under 5.2.1
by Mark Krieger·6 years ago
Still running fine under 5.2.1
Perfect
by Madeline·7 years ago
Perfect plugin if you just need to change the length of excerpts or the “read more” text. Simple, easy to use, nothing superfluous.
Excellent Plugin
by pkazmercyk·9 years ago
After tearing my hair out for hours, I found this plugin. Easy to implement and customize. Exactly what I needed! Thanks!!!
Brilliant – Works perfectly!
by nerdorturd·9 years ago·1 reply
I signed up to wordpress.org just to do a review on this plugin. It works very well and really useful on my website [ link redacted, please do not post links in reviews ]
Cheers
Nerd
Easy to implement, great support
by hbee·9 years ago
Excellent plugin!
Download Trends
Today: 17Yesterday: 57This week: 123Period total: 4K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.9.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.6
81.4%
v1.4
10.2%
v1.5
8.4%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
v1.6.1 – 2/25/2023
- Nonce added to prevent CSRF vulnerability.
Contributors
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