by WPKube 4.3 (101 reviews)

Advanced Excerpt

Name: Advanced Excerpt
Rating: 4.3 (101 reviews)
Author: WPKube

Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts

Advanced Excerpt ranks #548 among WordPress.org plugins with 80,000+ active installations, is #31 of 1,145 in the Editor & Writing category, a 4.3/5 rating from 101 reviews, and was last updated Aug 1, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 7 (Current: 7.1)

v4.5 Current Version v4.5

Updated 1 month ago Last Update on 01 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 6 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#31 of 1,145 in Editor & Writing Top 1% by installs Downloads -7.7% this week

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KW Avg Position

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1.5M

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Support Resolved

67%

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Rating

86%

Review 4.3 out of 5

4.3 (101 reviews)

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Source: WPVulnerability

1 known vulnerability on record · 1 in the last 24 months · checked 1 week ago

Aug 6, 2026

Advanced Excerpt [advanced-excerpt] < 4.5 (closed)

CVE-2026-13701 · Fixed in v4.5

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Plugin Details

Version: 4.5
Last Updated: Aug 01, 2026
Requires WP: 3.2+
Tested Up To: 7
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: WPKube

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 4.3
Reviews: 101
Support Threads: 3
Resolved: 67%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress theme developers and site owners who want more control over how post excerpts are generated and displayed. It solves the problem of WordPress' default excerpt behavior being too rigid, letting users keep HTML markup, set exact trim lengths, avoid awkward cuts, and add read-more links.

Keeps HTML markup in excerpt
Trims excerpt by character or word count
Ignores HTML when counting length
Customizable excerpt length and ellipsis
Completes last word or sentence
Adds read-more link
Ignores custom excerpts
the_advanced_excerpt() function for developers

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Advanced Excerpt

A short version of a post that is usually displayed wherever the whole post would be too much (eg. search results, news feeds, archives). You can write them yourself, but if you don't, WordPress will make a very basic one instead.

The default excerpt created by WordPress removes all HTML. If your theme uses the_excerpt() or the_content() to view excerpts, they might look weird because of this (smilies are removed, lists are flattened, etc.) This plugin fixes that and also gives you more control over excerpts.

During development, the plugin is tested with the most recent version(s) of WordPress. It might work on older versions, but it's better to just keep your installation up-to-date.

Advanced Excerpt is internationalization (i18n) friendly.

Before 4.1, multibyte characters were supported directly by this plugin. This feature has been removed because it added irrelevant code for a 'problem' that isn't actually specific to the plugin. If you require multibyte character support on your website, you can override the default text operations in PHP.

The plugin automatically hooks on the_excerpt() and the_content() functions and uses the parameters specified in the options panel. If you want to call the filter with different options, you can use the_advanced_excerpt() template tag provided by this plugin. This tag accepts query-string-style parameters (theme developers will be familiar with this notation). The following parameters can be set: length, an integer that determines the length of the excerpt length_type, enumeration, if set to words the excerpt length will be in words; if set to characters the excerpt length will be in characters no_custom, if set to 1, an excerpt will be generated even if the post has a custom excerpt; if set to 0, the custom excerpt will be used no_shortcode, if set to 1, shortcodes are removed from the excerpt; if set to 0, shortcodes will be parsed finish, enumeration, if set to exact the excerpt will be the exact lenth as defined by the "Excerpt Length" option. If set to word the last word in the excerpt will be completed. If set to sentence the last sentence in the excerpt will be completed. ellipsis, the string that will substitute the omitted part of the post; if you want to use HTML entities in the string, use %26 instead of the & prefix to avoid breaking the query read_more, the text used in the read-more link add_link, if set to 1, the read-more link will be appended; if 0, no link will be added allowed_tags, a comma-separated list of HTML tags that are allowed in the excerpt. Entering _all will preserve all tags. exclude_tags, a comma-separated list of HTML tags that must be removed from the excerpt. Using this setting in combination with allowed_tags makes no sense A custom advanced excerpt call could look like this: the_advanced_excerpt('length=320&length_type=words&no_custom=1&ellipsis=%26hellip;&exclude_tags=img,p,strong');

No, this plugin fetches the post from The Loop and there is currently no way to pass a post ID or any custom input to it.