A. Jones

Version 1.7
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This plugin is a very simple plugin the allows you to change the number of words that are displayed in excerpts and to replace the elipsis with text.
The settings for this plugin can be found on the Settings Menu in the Admin Panel. Check the box for the option you wish to manage and enter the value. There are two options: “Maximum number of words to display in an excerpt” and “Read More Text”. You should not use this plugin with other plugins that modify excerpts.
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Simply Excerpts

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.

Jack Reichert

This plugin was developed to display excerpts from random posts in a category. jQuery is used for fading the plugin in and out. It’s a great way for displaying testimonials of clients or just giving a snapshot of content from your site.
Shortcode added as of version 1.4
The most basic use is: <code>[reFader]</code> this will use the default options. 
Here is an example of all the options in use 
 [reFader title=”Random Excerpts” cat=”23″ type=”post” amount=”5″ length=”50″ duration=”5000″ linked=”no” url=”http://www.jackreichert.com/”]
This will show 5 (amount) posts (type) from category #23 (cat). It will show 50 (length) words from each post and fade out/in every 5 seconds (duration). It will not link each title to the corresponding post, but it will link all the titles to this plugins page (url).

Random Excerpts Fader

Creates a widget that takes randomly a number of excerpts from a category of your choice and fades them in and out.

Simply Excerpts vs Random Excerpts Fader