Steve Grunwell

<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!
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 <a href="https://github.com/stevegrunwell/advanced-post-excerpt" rel="nofollow ugc">visit this project on GitHub</a>.

Advanced Post Excerpt

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

Daiv Mowbray

SuperSlider-Excerpts automatically pulls thumbnails from your posts and morph-animates the roll over to any css style, wherever you show excerpts (archive page, feed…). The thumbnail can be any sized image and linked to post, attachment page, or other size version of image(for light box pop overs). Mouseover image will then Morph its properties, (controlled with css) You can pre-define the automatic creation of excerpt sized excerpt-nails.(New image size created, upon image upload). Compatible with <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/" title="Advanced Excerpt" rel="ugc">Advanced Excerpt</a>
Order of thumbnail search for inclusion in your excerpt listings.
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If your post / page has the new 2.9 post_thumb option on your post screen, if used, this image will be used.
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If your post / page has a meta_tag of thumbnail, it will grab the thumbnail and use that as part of your excerpt.
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If your post / page has attached images it will grab the first image and use that as part of your excerpt.
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If your page or post has an image embedded this plugin will grab the thumbnail from the first image.
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If your post has no image, this plugin will pull a category defined image, if you have added one.
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And lastly if still there is no image for the post, a random image will be presented.(Selects from as many as you define in options)
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Demos
This plugin can be seen in use here:
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<li><a href="http://superslider.daivmowbray.com/category/plugin-news" title="SuperSlider Excerpt demo" rel="nofollow ugc">SuperSlider Excerpt demo</a></li>
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Support
If you have any problems or suggestions regarding these plugins <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/superslider-excerpt" title="support forum" rel="ugc">please speak up</a>,
<h3>Themes</h3>
Create your own graphic and animation theme based on one of these provided.
Available themes
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<li>default</li>
<li>blue</li>
<li>black</li>
<li>custom</li>
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