Stephanie Leary

A widget that lists your most recent posts with excerpts, optionally limited to a category. The number of posts and excerpts is configurable; for example, you could show the titles of five posts but include the excerpt for only the two most recent. Supports <a href="http://robsnotebook.com/the-excerpt-reloaded/" rel="nofollow ugc">the_excerpt Reloaded</a> and <a href="http://sparepencil.com/code/advanced-excerpt/" rel="nofollow ugc">Advanced Excerpt</a> for excerpts with HTML formatting.
New! Supports displaying post thumbnails along with excerpts. Widget options let you place the thumbnails above the title, in between the title and the excerpt, or below the excerpt.
Now on <a href="https://github.com/sillybean/Recent-Posts-with-Excerpts" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>.
<h4>Translations</h4>
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<li>Serbo-Croatian (sr-RS) by <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Borisa Djuraskovic</a></li>
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If you would like to send me a translation, please write to me through <a href="http://stephanieleary.com/about/contact/" rel="nofollow ugc">my contact page</a>. Let me know which plugin you’ve translated and how you would like to be credited. I will write you back so you can attach the files in your reply.

Seans0n

Custom Excerpts allows you to implement custom excerpt text, length, and to choose HTML tags to allow and whether to make the link nofollow or dofollow. Previously the only way to achieve this was to edit the WordPress core file formatting.php which meant changes would be lost after each update.
Related Links:
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<li><a href="http://www.seanbluestone.com/customizing-the_excerpt" rel="nofollow ugc">Plugin Homepage</a></li>
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Custom Excerpts

Custom Excerpts allows you to create a custom excerpt length, choose HTML tags to allow and whether to make the link nofollow or dofollow.

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