This plugin hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.

Post and Page Excerpt Widgets

Description

Creates widgets that display excerpts from posts or pages in the sidebar. You may use ‘more’ links and/or link the widget title to the post or page. Requires Page Excerpt or Excerpt Editor for page excerpts. Supports the_excerpt Reloaded and Advanced Excerpt.

Now on GitHub.

Screenshots

  • The widget manager, with the extra options available when used in conjunction with the_excerpt Reloaded.

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin directory to /wp-content/plugins/
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Go to Design → Widgets to add widgets to your sidebar in widget-ready themes.

FAQ

Installation Instructions
  1. Upload the plugin directory to /wp-content/plugins/
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Go to Design → Widgets to add widgets to your sidebar in widget-ready themes.

Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

Contributors & Developers

“Post and Page Excerpt Widgets” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

2.2

  • Total refactoring and update.
  • Internationalization.
  • GitHub.

2.1

  • Bug fixed: ‘more’ text not showing up in some cases
  • Bug fixed: excerpt & ‘more’ link showing the wrong page when using more than one page widget
  • Thanks to Lynne for pointing out bugs!

2.0

  • Rewritten to use new widget API in WP 2.8
  • Improved loop handling
  • New per-widget controls for the_excerpt Reloaded options
  • Built-in upgrading of widgets from the 1.x plugin