Steve Grunwell

<p><a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Excerpt" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress post excerpts</a> 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!</p>
<p>Advanced Post Excerpts is designed to change that, by giving your editors an easy, intuitive interface for writing great post excerpts.</p>
<p>For complete details and/or to contribute to ongoing development, please <a href="https://github.com/stevegrunwell/advanced-post-excerpt" rel="nofollow ugc">visit this project on GitHub</a>.</p>


Advanced Post Excerpt

Replace the default Post Excerpt meta box with a superior editing experience.

paulmac

<p>Pauls Latest Posts displays a list of your latest posts and comments in the sidebar with excerpts. Excerpts length can be modified or left out completely. Useful for sites that display one post on the main page, and want to link to previous posts.</p>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
<p>Feedback is welcome as are feature requests. Just leave a comment on the <a href="http://www.paulmc.org/whatithink/wordpress/plugins/pauls-latest-posts/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Page</a>.</p>
<h3>Thanks</h3>
<p>Thanks goes to the following people: Simon who suggested that I add the Latest Comments functionality, Juno for suggesting the HTML functionality, the ability to change the Read More text, specify post and comment titles, disabling and enabling post title, comment title and styles. Wil for suggesting the Randomised Offset setting, Farabi for suggesting the category option, Peter for reporting the bug fixed in version 1.8, Charles for the post date.</p>


Pauls Latest Posts

Display latest posts with excerpts and comments in a sidebar widget.

Advanced Post Excerpt vs Pauls Latest Posts