This is not my first Worpress plugin, but the first I’ve decided to share. I promise I will share the others too..
I’ve created it to help those people who don’t like to edit code in template files (or are too lazy to do that). Just activate the plugin and it will automatically show the_excerpt() in your homepage, archives and search results.
So, what does it do exactly?
The plugin tries to display your custom excerpt text and if it doesn’t find it it will show an automatically generated excerpt. It’s good either if you want to use your custom excerpts of if you just want to show automatically generated excerpts in your blog.
Any custom options?
Yes, the user can define a custom excerpt length (default is 500), the read more text (default is Read more [...], and now you can also disable it) and whether to attach or not a thumbnail to your excerpt.
You can find these settings by going to Settings > Auto Excerpt in your WordPress admin panel.
Anything else?
If you find any bug or if you would like to have more options, please leave comment below.
You can also leave a comment just to say ‘Hi’ or any other kind of feedback.
Current version?
The up to date version is currently 1.5, released on 2012-10-11
Latest news
I found some time to release an update to my plugin. I decided to add a couple of features based on the suggestions I read in the comments of this post. Thanks to everyone for the support!
Download link?
You can find the plugin in the WordPress Plugin Directory: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/auto-excerpt-everywhere/
Changelog
= 1.5 =
New features, as always requested by some users: you can now exclude your home page and add an image button as a read more link.
= 1.4 =
New feature: you can now choose the thumbnail alignment.
= Version 1.3 =
New features: exclude/include sticky posts, choose a custom css class for the thumbnail
Bug of the blank “read more text” option is now fixed.
= Version 1.2 =
A couple of bug fixes and a new feature: you can now leave the “Read more text” field blank in order to disable the read more link.
This possibility was requested on my blog by someone who already has a Read more link included in his theme.
= Version 1.1 =
This release supports two new features:
1) you can choose to attach a thumbnail to your post excerpt
2) you can disable the excerpt in your rss feeds
I’ve also added a “Settings” link to Plugins page and a Donation button.
luglio 8th, 2011 alle 17:48
This is a great plugin, just what I needed!
There’s just one thing I dislike: It also truncates the RSS Feed articles. Is there any easy workaround or would you mind adding an option for turning this off?
Then it would be perfect!
luglio 11th, 2011 alle 11:13
Hi,
i was thinking to add featured images to the excerp, How to do that?
luglio 14th, 2011 alle 20:50
@Bernd: You’re totally right, I’ll add this feature asap!
@dee: you would like to be able to add a featured image to the excerpt? or just get the first image of the post automatically? or something else?
luglio 17th, 2011 alle 22:16
Great,
I’d also enjoy having the first image of the post in the excerpt.
Thanks
luglio 28th, 2011 alle 14:35
I love your plug-in. But I’m having a problem. When the excerpt appears on the category archive page, the caption code shows up.
On the home page, the excerpt and photo look great.
Here’s the link to the problem page. Can you help?
http://amanda.kingsjournalism.com/category/street/
But if you go to the home page, you’ll see that the excerpt is fine.
Thanks for your help.
agosto 7th, 2011 alle 13:10
Great plugin,really works,,READ MORE is a bit lost ,can you tell me where and how to change its color from light grey to perhaps green or red…thankyou
agosto 15th, 2011 alle 13:15
An excellent plug-in and just what I was looking for.
Many thanks!
agosto 22nd, 2011 alle 10:36
Hi guys, I’ve just released a new version of the plugin.
It should fix Lyn’s bug and a couple of new features: post thumbnail and rss exclusion.
Please let me know what you think about it!
agosto 23rd, 2011 alle 18:11
Great Plugin. Many Thanks.
Is it possible to allow whatever formatting the post may have (in the excerpt part) to be kept intact and shown on the front page ?
settembre 3rd, 2011 alle 04:17
i choose to include post thumbnail, but nothing come out. how to solve this?
settembre 5th, 2011 alle 14:31
@jennyhow: please make sure that you’ve actually selected one image as post thumbnail. just uploading an image is not enough!
settembre 5th, 2011 alle 23:13
I always appreciate free software to make my life easier.
I love giving donations to plugins that actually work.
The category page with excerpts make it easier for the user to navigate. I didn’t have excerpt on all my post and this plugin is like “presto” magic.
Thank You.
settembre 6th, 2011 alle 12:58
@TJones: thanks a lot! This is my first donation ever so it means a lot
settembre 11th, 2011 alle 21:15
Hello, I’d like to have an option to remove the “read more [...] from my posts please and thank. The theme I’m using already has a read more button so if you could please give us that option that would be excellent.
Thank you for an amazing plugin by the way, just what I’ve been looking for.
settembre 12th, 2011 alle 11:45
@iPXMods: have you tried to leave the field blank?
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settembre 23rd, 2011 alle 06:09
Love the plugin! Have a quick question that I’m hoping you can help me with. “read more” is not linked when someone presses on a word in my tag cloud. It still has the words “read more” but not linked. Also upon completing a search on my blog, there is no “read more” or any other type of link except the title.
Any ideas on how to fix this? Thank you!
settembre 23rd, 2011 alle 20:32
I have a link in the first line of the post. In the excerpt shown the link is just plain text, no clickable. When I click on read more, the whole text appears and the link is now clickable.
Is there a way to have the link clickable in the excerpt?
settembre 24th, 2011 alle 07:13
let’s try it!!
settembre 26th, 2011 alle 15:18
@Carli: I need to take a look at your theme in order to figure this out. Please contact me privately http://www.josie.it/contatta-josie/
@joe: atm the excerpt is without html tags. Maybe there’ll be an option to enable tags in the next release!
ottobre 3rd, 2011 alle 15:17
i use this plugin but doesn’t show any thumbnail on my home page or category page or search page.
how to solve it? please help me
thanks
ottobre 5th, 2011 alle 05:43
There is a “read more” text with link on the blog page, but not in archive or tag pages, have you solved this problem? Thanks.
ottobre 5th, 2011 alle 23:50
Hi!
Definately love the plugin but when I go to the post page it cannot be found. Can you tell me why this would happen?
Thank you,
Gina
ottobre 7th, 2011 alle 18:08
Is it possible to have an option to display the first post on the homepage as first text, and the rest as excerpts?
ottobre 7th, 2011 alle 18:32
*full text, that is
ottobre 8th, 2011 alle 10:13
@Adam: nice idea, maybe I can put it in the next version of the plugin.
@Gina: what do you mean? I can’t see the problem on your blog
@Ted: There must be something weird with the theme you’re using. Can you contact me privately? http://www.josie.it/contatta-josie/
ottobre 18th, 2011 alle 18:20
Hello.
Lovely work with the plugin.
I was would like to be able to remove the tags from the excerpts. Do we know how this could be done?
I’m always looking for the “ideal” plugins for my blog as I am not very smart with computer programs. This plugin is one of the most ideal for me and having the tags removed would be most excellent.
Well done for your work so far
ottobre 20th, 2011 alle 10:10
@thetruejoe90: do you mean the section with “posted in” and “tagged” in your blog? if yes, that’s not something this plugin is supposed to do I’m sorry
ottobre 20th, 2011 alle 19:37
Hi,
Just wondering if theres anyway to change the thumbnail from appearing on the left side to the right side on the main blog page?
Thanks, fantastic plugin by the way
ottobre 23rd, 2011 alle 18:11
i would love this plugin if it generates thumbnails automatically from my post but it doesnt…it generates thumbnails only if the post only contains the photos and no text…so it should generate thumbnail of the photo added with the text…or it would be even better if there is an option to assign a photo as a thumbnail for each post individually…..
ottobre 24th, 2011 alle 22:15
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ottobre 25th, 2011 alle 04:57
Very nice excerpt plugin but needs image support. I want it to just excerpt text but leaves the first image. This would be a very nice feature.
ottobre 25th, 2011 alle 05:23
Nevermind, I didn’t see the “set as feature image” in the upload page. Now I love this plugin even more.
ottobre 26th, 2011 alle 16:54
@agarwals you can set a thumbnail for each post in wordpress. It’s not necessary to include the image in the text, just set the an image as thumbnal after the upload!
novembre 4th, 2011 alle 07:04
Thank you for share this tutorial. I am dont like manual to add read more in my posting. So I install your plugin. good work!
novembre 6th, 2011 alle 22:54
Hello.
There is a big bug in this filter!!!
The function auto_except returns $post->post_content in those cases where you don’t have to truncate. That’s not proper… in these cases you should use $content because otherwise you will lose every possible change processed by other filter before!
uli
novembre 10th, 2011 alle 15:11
@concept_bug: thank you. I’ll take a look at it and release a bug fix if needed.
novembre 28th, 2011 alle 02:20
Your plugin is great… or at least, it was. I don’t know what happened, but now it isn’t working. I have tried deleting it and reinstalling it as well as changing the settings and it does nothing. I don’t think I made an update. I’m using v. 3.2.1
novembre 28th, 2011 alle 14:07
@Murphy: have you changed your theme ?
novembre 29th, 2011 alle 22:34
The plugin will not display thumbnails in the excerpts, I am using a custom theme created in Artisteer, any ideas please?
dicembre 4th, 2011 alle 13:22
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dicembre 7th, 2011 alle 13:34
Hi there,
I am also using your cool plugin!
I would also suggest to have the first top (latest) post totally open.
Also having some problems with thumbnails..
dicembre 12th, 2011 alle 22:32
hi, i tried to use auto excerpt anywhere with my blog but i have a small problem regarding the plugin.
The plugin does excerpts the post into a given number of words.
BUT the excerpt Read more text cannot be clicked and go to the post from the home page. it just displays
[Read More...]
and that’s it.
how can i resolve this?
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dicembre 27th, 2011 alle 15:54
@Rajitha: I guess it’s something about your theme. It seems like it’s stripping html tags. Try with the default theme and see if it works, just to check if that’s the problem.
gennaio 1st, 2012 alle 05:32
I’d also like to request the ability to remove the read more link. My theme has its own, and I can’t figure out how to remove it so I have duplicate read more links.
I deleted the text in the plugin, but it just restored the default of read more [...]
Otherwise, it works great!
gennaio 4th, 2012 alle 15:39
@Steve K: I’m realising 1.2 today with the feature you and some others requested!
gennaio 9th, 2012 alle 11:05
Hi Josie, love the plugin. I originally wanted to be able to change the template code myself to do this but all I could find were really old forum posts making reference to changing the index.php file in the theme, but the code that was mentioned no longer seems to be in that file.
Could you tell me which files need to be edited if I didn’t want to use the plugin please (I like to know how to do things myself as well if possible).
Also I wondered if you would be able to add a new feature: the facility to disable the excerpt for sticky posts. I have a sticky post on my blog home page and want it to display in full without the ‘read more’ link, but I want to keep using excerpts for all other posts.
Many thanks for your hard work in creating and sharing this plugin. Will gladly make a donation to you.
gennaio 15th, 2012 alle 02:51
Hi, am wondering if there’s a way to enlarge the font size in the excerpt portion?
gennaio 17th, 2012 alle 11:08
@Matrix23: if you prefer not to use the plugin you should edit every template file in which you have the function “the_content()”
@nicasiri: this is something you should do using your theme CSS files
gennaio 24th, 2012 alle 15:41
Thanks! Your plugin is easy to use and safes a lot of time:)
Works but there is one problem. When I click on “read more” it transfers me to:
” Not Found
Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.”
With every post the same result. I found in the net the advice that it’s a problem with my theme. I generated my theme using a special software.
What should I do to have your plugin work also on my page?
http://appleenglishschool.com/2012/01
gennaio 24th, 2012 alle 15:47
One more thing:
when I activate a defoult wordpress theme like Twenty eleven, there is the same probem.
febbraio 3rd, 2012 alle 18:37
Hi, I have a question, how do you pull a thumbnail photo with your pluggin, to the main page post
febbraio 4th, 2012 alle 22:17
Hi,
I have a client who wants to use this plugin… Unfortunately it conflicts with the WP Firewall 2 plugin. Could you check this out and let me know if you can come up with a fix?
Thank you!
febbraio 14th, 2012 alle 22:30
Great job, great plug-in – and it seems to work with the Custom Community theme. However, except for one thing: When I active the plugin, the post got cut and the read more link does not work. It appears but links nowhere. Any ideas how to fix it?
Regards,
Tommy!
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febbraio 22nd, 2012 alle 01:34
You did a great plug-in. Is it possible to make exceptions for some categories on witch this plug-in shouldn’t apply.
Thanks a lot,
John
febbraio 24th, 2012 alle 15:55
I tried using this with twenty eleven, it shows my custom excerpts i had written but was not using rather than getting an excerpt from the posts. Any clue how to fix this? i want to over ride the excerpts i had previously written.
marzo 5th, 2012 alle 10:22
Hello. At first, thanks a lot for this plugin. But, I have a little problem with it. In list of archive posts, “Read more” does not work, it’s not link (but it works on first page). Any idea to fix it? Thanks.
marzo 12th, 2012 alle 13:02
Ciao, mi piace molto questo plugin è proprio ciò che cercavo…grazie! Anche per me, in archivio e cerca non compare il link “leggi tutto”, non è cliccabile ma è solo una scritta.
Grazie!
marzo 13th, 2012 alle 20:16
Hi!
Is there a way for the excerpts to include the images from the post, if it appears at the beginning? Right now, those images are getting stripped away on the home page.
marzo 18th, 2012 alle 22:46
Hi.
Can you please tell me, where to find the file where I can style the thumbs?
marzo 27th, 2012 alle 14:50
>> Also I wondered if you would be able to add a new feature: the facility to disable the excerpt for sticky posts. I have a sticky post on my blog home page and want it to display in full without the ‘read more’ link, but I want to keep using excerpts for all other posts.
+1 Would like to see this feature added to this great plugin. Thanks in advance.
marzo 29th, 2012 alle 12:47
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aprile 2nd, 2012 alle 02:45
In development of our new site. Love this plugin however would like to make it so that shortcodes are not stripped as it has to do with our brand aesthetic.
Thanks in advance if you make the update!!
aprile 4th, 2012 alle 23:16
Is it possible to make the image shown in excerpt linked to the post?thx
aprile 12th, 2012 alle 20:10
OK – I’ve activated the plugin. What do I do next so it shows excerpts of my posts on the bog page?
aprile 30th, 2012 alle 07:40
Hello,
How do I use ‘words’ instead of ‘characters’ for excerpt length?
Thanks!
maggio 21st, 2012 alle 02:50
Ciao
Voglio vedere la possibilità di collegare in una nuova finestra
E un’immagine o un testo saranno collegati anche
giugno 11th, 2012 alle 14:06
I’m using the Blogolife theme on my blog and your plugin works perfectly other than it removes the HTML tags so the text has no formatting.
Any ideas on how I can fix it?
giugno 15th, 2012 alle 17:26
Hi!
I installed the plugin and aperance a new status bar…why?. I only want de clean plugin.
Thanks…
giugno 22nd, 2012 alle 03:01
Hi, Josie. Thanks for your plugin. It’s really help! I have a question about the Thumbnails img, can I change the size about it?
Thanks again.
giugno 28th, 2012 alle 00:43
How do you exclude it from certain pages.
I want to only excerpt on the home/index page, but for the Category or archive pages, I want to show the entire post; no excerpt at all.
luglio 26th, 2012 alle 03:17
Hi, I just downloaded your auto excerpt plugin, and even though it’s activated, I have no idea when and how it should appear? I am not a programmer, would just like to have the first few sentences of my posts in the sidebar of a page. Post titles show, but I cannot get the rest to show.
Thank you
Eva
luglio 26th, 2012 alle 15:26
Is there a way for the plugin to take whatever image is in the post and automatically use it as the featured image? Such a feature would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
agosto 11th, 2012 alle 11:19
There should be a ‘…’ before the excerpt link.
agosto 14th, 2012 alle 01:28
Hi, the read more link on the bottom of the post is still there even if I leave the read more text field blank. Is there a fix on this one?? -thanks.,
agosto 16th, 2012 alle 18:56
Same problem as Charlie. “Read more” doesn’t disappear.
agosto 17th, 2012 alle 21:50
“= Version 1.2 =
A couple of bug fixes and a new feature: you can now leave the “Read more text” field blank in order to disable the read more link.”
This does not work. The default text is replaced into the field if you remove it. Furthermore, the text isn’t even a link (not clickable) so how would it function as a “Read More” link. I seem to have a graphic one on my theme anyway and want to remove this one (yours).
Is there a way to specify on an individual post NOT to have an excerpt or another plugin you know about that will do this?
agosto 19th, 2012 alle 04:32
Grazie cosi per questo plugin…molto meraviglioso =))
agosto 29th, 2012 alle 22:39
Been looking for a solid excerpt plugin and I really like this one!
I have a problem…..it shows as it should, only there are only 5 or 6 posts showing on the page, you have to scroll all the way to the bottom of my homepage to see “older posts”, Any way to fill the remainder of the page with excerpts?
I’m always a donator once a plugin is working well for me, you work hard on these and deserve compensation! Hope to be able to do this soon!
agosto 31st, 2012 alle 20:57
I love the plugin. It is great. I would love to be able to wrap the thumbnail within the text, rather than just left aligning it. Is there someway to do that? Can you tell me where the css is for that? Thanks so much for the plugin.
settembre 1st, 2012 alle 19:04
Is it possible to have the Auto Excerpt functionality apply to category and archive pages?
settembre 5th, 2012 alle 13:21
Hi,
I have problems with the Thumbnails.
First does’t appear the photo and if I put the photo at the end in “Costum Field” in home page is okay, but if I press Read More I have the photo Twice.
How can I do?
settembre 10th, 2012 alle 13:34
I was using auto excerpt and it was working great until yesterday when there was an update. Now, the excerpt appears below the picture instead of beside it as it was. Any ideas?
Please let me know!
settembre 10th, 2012 alle 14:12
con questo aggiornamento il testo dell’estratto in home page non compare più lateralmente alla miniatura ma sotto, ha sfasato l’allineamento, c’è modo di far tornare come prima?
grazie.
settembre 10th, 2012 alle 16:17
Ciao Simona, puoi assegnare la classe “alignleft” come custom class
settembre 10th, 2012 alle 16:17
Hi Riane, you can assign the “alignleft” custom class in the settings
settembre 10th, 2012 alle 17:46
nice you fixed very fast that text alignment
BTW this is an awesome pluging for wordpress
thanks for your work is apreciated
settembre 11th, 2012 alle 01:15
I pushed the update that appeared available today (after GoDaddy got us back up) and it’s all fixed. Thanks!!
settembre 11th, 2012 alle 10:21
Grazie! mi era sfuggito, grazie mille…è perfetto!
settembre 12th, 2012 alle 18:03
Thank you so much for this plugin~ So far it look great, but saw someone else say this and I wanted to just agree~ It would be SO SO GREAT if this plugin would just pick a photo from the post automatically unless we wish to go in and change. I just put this plugin on my site, but I have 100+ posts so to go and set thumbs for every single post will take a very long time…. it would have been so great if it just grabbed one automatically to start.
Also, is there a way to enlarge, bold, or color the “READ MORE” text in this? I find it does not pop up too much, it would be great if some (limited) options were available to bold or color the text at least.
Thank you so much for making this! ♥ ♥ ♥
settembre 14th, 2012 alle 20:22
I was wondering if there was a way to use a image or button instead of text, I have tried everything and it will not allow me to add an image maybe this might be a good thing to add to the next update
settembre 29th, 2012 alle 05:08
HELP! Since I downloaded your plugin, my titles are gone. As you know, titles are pretty important. Otherwise, the plugin is great. Margaret
ottobre 2nd, 2012 alle 16:00
the plugin works great but i do not what to excerpt my home page. Is there anyway to exclude my front page post?
ottobre 11th, 2012 alle 17:12
Just updated the plugin with the features request by wormy and wanda. Thanks to everyone.
ottobre 12th, 2012 alle 02:10
Hi! Thanks for creating this plug-in…I am new to wordpress and this made me really happy to find
One request – I’d love to be able to set different excerpt lengths for my home page vs. archive/category pages (e.g., have longer excerpts on my home page). Any chance that’s possible on the next release?
ottobre 12th, 2012 alle 19:02
Hi Josie
Plugins great, was working great until I moved the web site to a new server. Now, no matter what I do I can’t seem to get an image to show on the home page is there something I have forgot? Thanks in anticipation of your help.
ottobre 14th, 2012 alle 03:47
WordPress 3.4.2;
Auto Excerpt everywhere 1.5; and
WP Help 1.1.*
*
I am also using several other plug-ins.
My help pages show excerpts only and when I click on the ‘more’ link, nothing happens.
I would really rather not have the excerpts in the help pages. If however I have to keep it that way, what do I need to do to get the rest of page to display?
Do I need to get rid of one plugin or the other?
‘Help’ was working fine till I added the ‘Excerpt’ plug-in. ‘Excerpt’ works beautifully on my posts. Both are great plug-ins. I would like to have both!
ottobre 21st, 2012 alle 23:24
Hello, I find your plugin very useful, more than ALL the others I’ve tried for sure!
Yours is simple and sleek, problem is, I could love to use one image as a teaser on the excerpt. Even if I choose a thumbnail some posts will show one image, but most posts wont.
Is there anything I could do?
Thank you!
Anna
ottobre 22nd, 2012 alle 02:19
Hi!
Love this plugin; however one thing. Is there a way to make my featured image not also become the header image for that post? It does it to all of my posts EXCEPT for one random post. I have no idea why that one shows my normal header, but I would prefer that my header remained my logo and not a blown up version of my featured image. Do Thanks!
ottobre 29th, 2012 alle 17:20
WordPress 3.4.2
DeepFocus 4.1
Auto Excerpts Everywhere 1.5
Website in development http://forevergreenwedding.eu/
When activating the plugin, the thumbnails dissappear on my homepage. If it isn’t activated nothing’s wrong. What can I do to make that work?
ottobre 30th, 2012 alle 14:06
Hi Josie (and thanks for the plugin:-))
I don’t know if it’s just me or what but, is the excerpt lenght set in characters or in words? Because if I set it to, let’s say 500, it shows an excerpt which I assume is showing characters (just a couple of sentences)in my search results page but, it shows a huge excerpt (half a post, I’d dare to say) in the rest of my blog pages (what makes me think, that in this case, it’s showing 500 words).
Would it be possible to add an extra feature in a future update to be able to choose between words or characters? Or maybe be able to choose where in the website/blog use the plugin? (like a check box to mark with a tick “Home”/”Categories”/”Search Results”, depending on where you want to show that particular kind of excerpt).
Thanks!
novembre 12th, 2012 alle 08:22
If exceprt activated, I cant open full articles, it only show the excerpt version, when I click “read more” it wont display the full articles
how to overcome this problem?
novembre 12th, 2012 alle 09:02
Thank you so much for this plug in!! It works great!!
For people who are not seeing their images in their excerpts – here is an answer I just posted on WordPress.org support forum, but since I see people are asking about it here too – I will paste it in here too.
To have an image show in the excerpt you need to set it as a “Featured Image”.
Go to the top of you post page in Edit mode and look at your Screen Options. Make sure “Featured Image” is checked so it shows up on your post page. From there you can set which image you want to have show up in the excerpts.
You will need to go back to all of your posts and set the featured image for each one.
*** However, I am pretty sure there is a plugin that will make the first image be your featured image. You can check. I do not use it so am not entirely sure. *****
From here on out, when you are writing a new post you can set the featured image when you are placing the image in the post itself. Look down at the bottom of the Image screen. Right next to “Insert Image” there will additionally be an option to Set as Featured Image. If you forget to click that at that point then you will have to use the “Set Featured Image on your post edit page.
HTH
novembre 23rd, 2012 alle 02:40
This is great, the only thing missing: link on featured image! Please add if you can, thank you very much!
novembre 25th, 2012 alle 16:30
Hello my friend!
I agree with the last comment..it should be really wonderful if the Featured Image could be linked to the post, too..a lot of people click on the image to go to the post, and there’s no link on the image…
Regards!
dicembre 2nd, 2012 alle 17:01
I want to have the first image of each post to appear to the left of the excerpt. How do I add this feature?
dicembre 2nd, 2012 alle 17:32
Also, if I set the featured image then a huge version of it shows up and is distorted. Please help me figure this out. It’s making me crazy!
dicembre 18th, 2012 alle 02:21
Is it possible to make an option to do an excerpt based on the first paragraph?
I don’t quite like all themes and excerpt plugins that just count the words and cut the text in the middle of the sentence.
It would be much better if we could have an option to choose whether we’d like to have an excerpt after the first paragraph.
Thanks! Otherwise, this is great plugin, I’m using it instead of the included one in CatchBox theme, because your plugin doesn’t mess with the image when I choose “large” – it displays my image in native size. Well done!