Title: WP Excerpt Settings
Author: Yslo
Published: <strong>June 30, 2014</strong>
Last modified: December 20, 2017

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
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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# WP Excerpt Settings

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

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-excerpt-settings.1.1.2.zip)

 * [Details](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-excerpt-settings/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-excerpt-settings/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-excerpt-settings/#installation)
 * [Development](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-excerpt-settings/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-excerpt-settings/)

## Description

Allows you the ability to set Excerpt through Settings panel.

#### Features

 * Set text to symbolize the excerpt end
 * Set words length used by automatic excerpt
 * Use default WordPress behaviors
 * Excerpt settings added on Reading Settings (Settings > Reading)
 * Contextual Help
 * Translation MO/PO files
 * Desactivate restore default WordPress behavior
 * Uninstall restore default WordPress behavior

#### Languages

 * English
 * French

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Activate the plugin
 * [[
 * Link to Excerpt panel

## Installation

 1. Download and extract plugin files to wp-content/plugin directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the WordPress admin interface.

You will find ‘Excerpt’ menu in your WordPress Settings panel.

## FAQ

  Installation Instructions

 1. Download and extract plugin files to wp-content/plugin directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the WordPress admin interface.

You will find ‘Excerpt’ menu in your WordPress Settings panel.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Didn’t Work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/didnt-work-223/)󠁿

 [TE5LA](https://profiles.wordpress.org/te5la/) January 13, 2018

Didn’t remove excerpts for me.

 [ Read all 2 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-excerpt-settings/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“WP Excerpt Settings” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

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

[Translate “WP Excerpt Settings” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-excerpt-settings)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.1.2

 * Feature : better translation integration with WordPress.org

#### 1.1.1

 * Fix : compatibility with twentyfourteen, twentythirteen, twentytwelve

#### 1.1.0

 * Excerpt settings added on Reading Settings

#### 1.0.0

 * Initial version

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1.2**
 *  Last updated **8 years ago**
 *  Active installations **200+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.9.29**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-excerpt-settings/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[automatic](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/automatic/)
   [core](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/core/)[theme](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/theme/)
   [updates](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/updates/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://kal.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-excerpt-settings/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  2 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-excerpt-settings/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  0 4-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-excerpt-settings/reviews/?filter=4)
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 *  [  0 1-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-excerpt-settings/reviews/?filter=1)

[Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-excerpt-settings/reviews/#new-post)

[See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-excerpt-settings/reviews/)

## Contributors

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

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-excerpt-settings/)