Alternatives to Recent Posts with Excerpts
A widget that lists your most recent posts with optional excerpts.
Snapshot
Rating: 5.0/5 (5 reviews)
Downloads: 52,489
Active installs: 800
Maintenance score: 22/100
Compatibility
Requires WordPress: 2.8
Tested up to: 4.8.27
Requires PHP: f
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Auto Excerpt everywhere(18)•Updated 4829d ago
The plugin automatically displays excerpts instead of full post contents in your blog. Custom excerpts and generated excerpts supported.
2,000 installs85,192 downloads24/100 • Possibly abandoned
Advanced Post Excerpt(4)•Updated 743d ago
Replace the default Post Excerpt meta box with a superior editing experience.
2,000 installs22,285 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
500 installs7,962 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Simply Excerpts(2)•Updated 406d ago
A simple plugin for exceprts that allows you to change the word count and to replace the elipsis (...) with text. Not compatible with all themes.
500 installs10,121 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
Ultimate Sticky Posts Widget(5)•Updated 2892d ago
This Widget works well to display sticky/posts or both.
100 installs6,224 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Page Excerpts(1)•Updated 4782d ago
Adds an excerpt field to pages, and provides a widget for displaying page excerpts
100 installs8,374 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Post and Page Excerpt Widgets(0)•Updated 3540d ago
Creates widgets that display excerpts from posts or pages in the sidebar.
80 installs10,883 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Multiple Excerpt Lengths(1)•Updated 2306d ago
Allows you to change the lengths of WordPress excerpts (the_excerpt) that are present at various pages/templates throughout your site.
80 installs4,627 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Random Excerpts Fader(2)•Updated 3252d ago
Creates a widget that takes randomly a number of excerpts from a category of your choice and fades them in and out.
50 installs6,645 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Custom Excerpts(0)•Updated 6177d ago
Custom Excerpts allows you to create a custom excerpt length, choose HTML tags to allow and whether to make the link nofollow or dofollow.
50 installs11,484 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
SuperSlider-Excerpt(2)•Updated 4755d ago
SuperSlider-Excerpts automatically pulls thumbnails from your posts and morph-animates the roll over to any css style, wherever you show excerpts (arc …
40 installs9,869 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
40 installs1,748 downloads38/100 • Stale
Catalyst Excerpts Plus(1)•Updated 4983d ago
Catalyst Excerpts Plus builds on the Catalyst Excerpts widget for users of the Catalyst framework.
30 installs12,942 downloads22/100 • Possibly abandoned
Pauls Latest Posts(0)•Updated 6106d ago
Display latest posts with excerpts and comments in a sidebar widget.
30 installs5,322 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Recent Posts Ultimate(0)•Updated 768d ago
RPU is the ultimate recent posts plugin, even allowing HTML to be displayed. Quick, easy and efficient!
30 installs1,267 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
Page Excerpts for WordPress Three(0)•Updated 5423d ago
Add excerpts to pages the WordPress 3.x way. Less code, less overhead.
20 installs2,926 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
OpenAI Content Assistant via ChatGPT | Markupus(2)•Updated 618d ago
ChatGPT - OpenAI helps to create a title & an excerpt based on the content of post using ChatGPT API.
10 installs822 downloads28/100 • Possibly abandoned
Extra Options(0)•Updated 5522d ago
A collection of tweaks to improve your WordPress experience and your site’s performance.
10 installs5,478 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
blogsiread(0)•Updated 4676d ago
Displays user-definable content from other blogs (via wordpress Links [RSS]) as a widget in your blog in a highly customisable format.
10 installs3,527 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned
10 installs2,933 downloads20/100 • Possibly abandoned