Advanced Post Excerpt Plugin
Replace the default Post Excerpt meta box with a superior editing experience.
WordPress post excerpts can be a great way to hand-craft the summary of your content. Unfortunately, writing post excerpts isn’t as nice of an experience as what you find elsewhere in WordPress. Want to include links in your excerpts, or bold some text? Hopefully you know some HTML!
Advanced Post Excerpts is designed to change that, by giving your editors an easy, intuitive interface for writing great post excerpts.
For complete details and/or to contribute to ongoing development, please visit this project on GitHub.
Installation
- Upload the plugin files into
wp-content/plugins/advanced-post-excerpt. - Activate the plugin through the WordPress “Plugins” screen.
Screenshots
The Advanced Post Excerpt meta box, replacing the standard WordPress post excerpt.
FAQ
Absolutely! Before the native “Excerpt” meta box is overridden, Advanced Post Excerpt passes an array of post types to the ape_post_types filter.
If, for instance, you only want the native “post” post type to use Advanced Post Excerpt, you can add the following to your theme’s functions.php file:
/** * Restrict Advanced Post Excerpt to the "post" post type. * * @param array $post_types Post types affected by Advanced Post Excerpt. * @return array A restricted version of $post_types containing only "post". */ function mytheme_restrict_ape_post_types( $post_types ) { return array( 'post' ); } add_filter( 'ape_post_types', 'mytheme_restrict_ape_post_types' ); Yes! As of version 1.0.0, Advanced Post Excerpt will continue to display the TinyMCE editor in a meta box at the bottom of the block editor. To avoid conflicts, the default “Post Excerpt” panel in the block editor’s sidebar will automatically be removed.
Changelog
For a full list of changes, please see the full changelog on GitHub.
1.0.0
- Added compatibility with the WordPress block editor (a.k.a. “Gutenberg”).
- Bumped minimum PHP version to 7.0.
0.2.1
- Ensured that the plugin was localization-ready.
0.2.0
- Removed left, center, and right alignment buttons from the default post excerpt editor. If desired, these can be restored with a single line of code.
0.1.0
- Initial public release.