Title: Custom Excerpts
Author: Seans0n
Published: <strong>January 11, 2009</strong>
Last modified: February 1, 2009

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Custom Excerpts

 By [Seans0n](https://profiles.wordpress.org/seans0n/)

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

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

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

## Description

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:

 * [Plugin Homepage](http://www.seanbluestone.com/customizing-the_excerpt)

## Installation

 1. Upload the wplinkdir folder to your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
 2. Activate the plugin via the Plugins menu in WordPress.
 3. Options can be changed from Settings -> Custom Excerpts

That’s it! Wherever the_excerpt is used in your theme files it will utilize the 
options you have set.

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

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

Contributors

 *   [ Seans0n ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/seans0n/)

[Translate “Custom Excerpts” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/custom-excerpts)

### Interested in development?

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

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.1**
 *  Last updated **17 years ago**
 *  Active installations **50+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **2.7**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-excerpts/)
 * Tags
 * [excerpt](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/excerpt/)[excerpts](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/excerpts/)
   [posts](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[template tags](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/template-tags/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://pcd.wordpress.org/plugins/custom-excerpts/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Seans0n ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/seans0n/)

## Support

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