Title: Always Show Excerpts
Author: keith_wp
Published: <strong>October 28, 2019</strong>
Last modified: April 7, 2025

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# Always Show Excerpts

 By [keith_wp](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keith_wp/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/always-show-excerpts.0.13.zip)

 * [Details](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/always-show-excerpts/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/always-show-excerpts/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/always-show-excerpts/#installation)
 * [Development](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/always-show-excerpts/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/always-show-excerpts/)

## Description

After getting annoyed that the default 2017 theme was showing the full post content
on every index page, I extended [this support answer](https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/77947/25187)
into this plugin that can filter calls to “the_content” and return the post excerpt
instead.

## Screenshots

[⌊Settings to pick which indexes.⌉⌊Settings to pick which indexes.⌉[

Settings to pick which indexes.

[⌊Demo of an index before applying this plugin.⌉⌊Demo of an index before applying
this plugin.⌉[

Demo of an index before applying this plugin.

[⌊Demo of an index after applying this plugin.⌉⌊Demo of an index after applying 
this plugin.⌉[

Demo of an index after applying this plugin.

## Installation

 1. Upload the plugin files to the **/wp-content/plugins/always-show-excerpts/** directory,
    or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
 3. Go to the Settings -> Reading page to configure the plugin, picking which types
    of archives should be affected.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Always Show Excerpts” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ keith_wp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keith_wp/)

[Translate “Always Show Excerpts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/always-show-excerpts)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/always-show-excerpts/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/always-show-excerpts/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/always-show-excerpts/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/always-show-excerpts/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

### 0.13

 * Fix: Stopped creating deprecated dynamic properties for PHP 8.3

### 0.12

 * Tested against 6.7.2
 * Fix: Moved the translation text domain loading to later in the init

### 0.11

 * Tested against 6.5, 6.4.1 and 6.3.2

### 0.1

 * Tested against 5.6 alpha

### 0.1

 * Tested against 5.2.4
 * Initial release

## Meta

 *  Version **0.13**
 *  Last updated **1 year ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **6.7.7**
 *  PHP version ** 8.3 or higher **
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/always-show-excerpts/)
 * Tags
 * [excerpt](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/excerpt/)[post excerpt](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post-excerpt/)
   [Post Excerpts](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/post-excerpts/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/always-show-excerpts/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ keith_wp ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/keith_wp/)

## Support

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