Title: Easy Excerpt
Author: Fredrik Malmgren
Published: <strong>September 12, 2010</strong>
Last modified: May 2, 2011

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Easy Excerpt

 By [Fredrik Malmgren](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fredrikmalmgren/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/easy-excerpt.0.3.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-excerpt/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-excerpt/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-excerpt/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-excerpt/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-excerpt/)

## Description

With Easy Excerpt your can manage your posts excerpt and change excerpt length, 
ending and “read more”-link from WordPress admin.

#### Usage

 1. Go to ‘Easy Excerpt’ under ‘Settings’ menu
 2. Change the options of your choice

Follow the development of this plugin at [FredrikMalmgren.com](http://fredrikmalmgren.com/wordpress/plugins/easy-excerpt/).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Admin panel for managing excerpt

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin folder to your plugin folder (manually or through ‘Plugins’ /‘
    Add new’ menu in WordPress)
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

#### Uninstallation

 1. Deactivate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 2. Click on delete which will both delete plugin files and data stored in database

**NB:** If you uninstall the plugin in any other way you will manually have to remove
these entries from the options table:

 * easy_excerpt_length
 * easy_excerpt_more
 * easy_excerpt_more_link

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Easy Excerpt” is open source software. The following people have contributed to
this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Fredrik Malmgren ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fredrikmalmgren/)

[Translate “Easy Excerpt” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/easy-excerpt)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/easy-excerpt/), check
out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/easy-excerpt/), or subscribe
to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/easy-excerpt/) by
[RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/easy-excerpt/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 0.3.0

 * Added license information
 * Made plugin ready for translation
 * Added Swedish translation
 * Removed the code-snippets.txt file

#### 0.2.0

 * Added so that “more link” also shows up on manual excerpts

#### 0.1.0

 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.3.0**
 *  Last updated **15 years ago**
 *  Active installations **30+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.1.4**
 * Tags
 * [excerpt](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/excerpt/)[post](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-excerpt/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Fredrik Malmgren ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/fredrikmalmgren/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-excerpt/)