c6 Excerpts Wordpress Plugin

Basically, this plugin gives you 3 things: The ability to easily add your excerpts from within the content editor, whether that’s an external posting tool or the built in editor in Wordpress. Second, the ability to turn off the automatic paragraph generation (like the no-excerpt-p plugin), and last the option to turn off “texturization” of the excerpt.

You can use multi-paragraph excerpts, and with the auto-paragraphing and texturization turned off, you can include your own HTML formatting as you see fit. You can also have it embedded automatically in your template. I do this with mine, so that I can create divs for movies embedded in the excerpts and paragraph tags for regular text excerpts manually.

The excerpt is created by placing tags surrounding the excerpt text anywhere in the post. The tags are and but with square brackets, and surround your text. They can include newlines and HTML code. You have the option of hiding the entire excerpt block from regular view, or just hiding the tags and viewing it inline. The latter option means you could just surround your first one or two paragraphs with the tags and have them automatically excerpted, but still included in the post, effectively replacing the <--more--> tag.

The options panel is located under the Plugins menu. There are only 3 options, so you won’t get confused ;-).

The reason for this plugin, as I mentioned in my last post, is that the more tag is now cutting off RSS feeds at the more line, and all of my feeds have become partial feeds against my will. I like to keep my front page tidy and my RSS feeds full, and I’ve lost the best of both worlds. So this plugin is built for me, but I hope it will help out people in a similar situation.

Features

  • Add excerpts from within post body, allowing creation of excerpts even from external blogging applications that don’t support excerpts in the interface.
  • Prevent the automatic insertion of paragraph tags around excerpts by Wordpress when using the_excerpt
  • Prevent the automatic texturization of excerpts by Wordpress
  • Include the excerpted section of the post inline or hide it from the regular post view

Changelog:

  • 1.24.07: Initial Release

Installation

  • Download and unzip the file.
  • Upload c6-excerpt.php to your Wordpress plugins directory.
  • Activate the plugin from the plugins administration page.

Usage

  • Under Plugins - c6 Excerpts Options, set the options as desired
  • Add tags (replacing the corner brackets with square brackets) around the section of the post you want to be the excerpt. If you’ve selected to hide the entire excerpt from the post view, you can write an entirely separate post excerpt within the excerpt tags anywhere within the post body. If you’re including it inline, just tag a section of the post that makes sense as an excerpted text.

Download

Latest Version: c6-excerpt.zip
You can add comments to the release announcement for this version.

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