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Excerpt Editor

Quick edit or create excerpts for both Posts and Pages, auto-generate and append excerpts or replace the content with excerpts.

1.4

  • Fixed creating excerpts for the RSS feed
  • Other minor bugfixes.

1.3

  • Updated for WordPress 2.7
  • Allowed HTML tags can be entered in the settings manually
  • Replaced the textarea resize script
  • Other minor bugfixes

1.2

  • Updated for WordPress 2.6
  • Renders (or hides) all registered shortcodes properly when auto-creating excerpts
  • Does not append the "Continue reading" link at the end if the post is shorter than the specified excerpt lenght.

1.1

  • Updated for WordPress 2.5
  • Removed auto-creation of excerpts on saving or editing.

1.0

  • Added option to replace the content with the excerpt on the Home page, all archive pages and/or all tags pages. This eliminates content duplication (SEO).
  • Added option to append excerpts to Posts and Pages.

0.3.2

  • Fixed: when editing Pages, WordPress would delete the custom excerpts.
  • New option: if Read More link is used, it can contain comments count.
  • New option: display the Excerpt box when writing/editing Pages.

0.3.1

  • Fixed: properly append the "Read More" link when auto-generating excerpts.
  • Now using nonce fields when deleting or saving excerpts.
  • The code is organized in a class for better compatibility.

0.2

  • Fixed: properly remove script, [CDATA and html comments when auto-creating excerpts.
  • New: auto-create excerpts when publishing new Posts and Pages (WordPress 2.1+ only) optionally keeping some HTML tags.

Requires: 2.6 or higher
Compatible up to: 2.9.2
Last Updated: 2009-12-17
Downloads: 64,127

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(33 ratings)

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