WordPress.org

I have created a little WordPress plugin in the shape of a widget, which allows the user to display an excerpt of a page in a sidebar area of their choice. I wrote this to replace a little theme hack I did for a client, where the front page was supposed to have an excerpt of a page on the front page, of course linking to the full page. Instead of keeping it that way and hard coding the page-id, I wanted something where the end user could change which page was supposed to be linked. I hope it will be of use to someone.

Right now you can:

• Define the amount of characters to use as an excerpt
• Select the page from all existing pages
• Link the title of the page, to the page
• Append a link to the page
• Decide a custom label for the read more link
• add multiple instances of the widget

I plan to increase the functionality with:

• some internationalisation