BettyJJ

<h4>Main features of the plugin:</h4>
<ol>
<li>It supports multi-byte language (such as Chinese). It will not produce gibberish as some other excerpt plugins do.</li>
<li>The html tags in the original posts, i.e., the font styles, colors, hyperlinks, pictures and such are preserved in the excerpt.</li>
<li>For better readability, it displays 300 characters for each post on the homepage and 150 characters for each post on archive pages.</li>
</ol>


WP-UTF8-Excerpt

This plugin generates a better excerpt for multi-byte language users (Chinese, for example). Besides, it keeps the html tags in the excerpt.

Automattic

WooCommerce

WooThemes

James Koster

Matt Cohen

Tiago Noronha

danieldudzic

jeffikus

<p>Using Homepage Control, any theme which uses a “homepage” (or other) hook to display components on a homepage, just got better. Re-order or disable any of the homepage components added by your theme, and control the display and order of any function hooked on to the “homepage” hook.</p>
<p>Looking for a helping hand? <a href="http://docs.woocommerce.com/document/homepage-control/" rel="nofollow ugc">View plugin documentation</a>.</p>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Once activated, a “Homepage Control” item will display in the Theme Customizer ( Appearance > Customizer ).</p>
<p>Visiting this screen will display a table of the possible homepage components, with options for re-ordering them, or disabling individual components.</p>
<p>Once done, click the “Save Changes” button, to commit your new component order into the system.</p>


Homepage Control

Re-order or disable the homepage components in certain themes.

WP-UTF8-Excerpt vs Homepage Control