Title: Summary posts?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Summary posts?

 *  Resolved [dcmbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcmbrown/)
 * (@dcmbrown)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-posts/)
 * Does anyone know of any plugins which will only give a summary of a blog (say
   four lines for example) and then offer a link to view the full blog post? Somewhat
   similar to how it occurs in the RSS feed?

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-posts/#post-472780)
 * The template tag the_excerpt() tied to the post permalink offers this:
 *  [http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt)
 * Some plugins which improve on the concept:
 *  [http://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/](http://guff.szub.net/2005/02/26/the-excerpt-reloaded/)
   
   [http://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/wordpress/evermore-wordpress-plugin/](http://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/wordpress/evermore-wordpress-plugin/)
   [http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/PostTeaser](http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/PostTeaser)
   [http://www.semiologic.com/projects/fancy-excerpt/](http://www.semiologic.com/projects/fancy-excerpt/)
   [http://ashwinbihari.com/archives/2005/01/14/plugin-auto-more/](http://ashwinbihari.com/archives/2005/01/14/plugin-auto-more/)

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 * [summaries](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/summaries/)

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 * Last activity: [19 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/summary-posts/#post-472780)
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