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PublisherKits ExcerptBuilder
AI-powered excerpt generation using the WordPress AI Client. Write, rewrite, or tidy excerpts on demand, or auto-draft them on publish for review.
PublisherKits ExcerptBuilder ranks #56,699 among WordPress.org plugins with 1+ active installations, a 1/5 rating from 0 reviews, and was last updated Sep 22, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.
Compatible with WP 7.1
v0.13.0
Current Version v0.13.0
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- Version
- 0.13.0
- Last Updated
- Sep 22, 2026
- Requires WP
- 7.0+
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- 7.1
- PHP Version
- 7.4 or higher
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about PublisherKits ExcerptBuilder
Three practical differences. It has no API key of its own. ExcerptBuilder uses the WordPress AI Client, so you configure a provider once at Settings > Connectors and every plugin on the site shares it. There is no key to paste into yet another settings screen, and nothing to redo when you rotate one. It knows what your site is. Most excerpt tools see only the post. ExcerptBuilder also passes a short description of your publication and its readers, so the excerpt is pitched at your audience rather than at nobody in particular. It has a mode that does not rewrite. Tidy fixes spelling, typos, capitalisation and stray line breaks, and nothing else. That matters when an excerpt is already right and you only want the errors gone. There is also a safety net: with "Excerpts at publish" enabled, a post cannot quietly go live with an empty excerpt - including scheduled posts and imports, where no editor is present to be prompted.
On the Customize tab you describe your publication, what kind of site it is, and who reads it. Those fields are sent to the model alongside the post, as a short context block, before the excerpt is written. In practice it changes emphasis and register rather than facts. The same article on a B2B trade title and on a consumer blog will lead with a different detail, assume a different amount of prior knowledge, and use different phrasing. It applies to Write and Rewrite. Tidy deliberately ignores it, because Tidy must not reframe or change meaning. Leaving the fields empty is perfectly fine - the excerpt is then written from the post alone.
You need one AI provider configured on the site, but not a key belonging to this plugin. ExcerptBuilder reads whatever is set up at Settings > Connectors through the WordPress AI Client, and stores no key of its own. The Setup tab lists the providers it can see and whether each one's plugin is active. If nothing is configured, ExcerptBuilder makes no request and generates nothing - it has no hosted fallback and never sends your content anywhere by default.
Install and activate a provider plugin, add its key at Settings > Connectors, then return to ExcerptBuilder's Setup tab and click Run self-test. The self-test performs one real request and reports exactly what came back, which is usually enough to identify a wrong key, an inactive provider plugin, or a model your key cannot use. If you need a specific model, set it under Model on the same tab. Leaving it alone is fine - a sensible default is used.
Yes. The WordPress AI Client that ExcerptBuilder depends on arrived in WordPress 7.0, so earlier versions are not supported.
No. Nothing is overwritten without you asking. The publish-time feature only ever acts on a post whose excerpt is empty - if there is already an excerpt, it does nothing. In the editor, Write and Rewrite show you the result in a preview box and you decide whether to save it. Rewrite and Tidy are the only features that change existing text, and only when you run them deliberately on that post.
Posts. The ExcerptBuilder box appears on the post editor and the publish-time behaviour applies to posts.
Yes. The generation box appears in both the block editor and the Classic Editor, and the publish-step prompt works in both.
ExcerptBuilder writes the WordPress excerpt. It never reads, writes or overwrites any SEO plugin's own fields, so there is nothing for the two to fight over. What it does do is write excerpts that are usable as a meta description: front-loaded so the important part survives truncation, self-contained and accurate to the article, no clickbait and no trailing ellipsis, and on Short or Medium roughly search-snippet length. Whether that excerpt actually becomes your meta description is your SEO plugin's decision, and the two most common ones behave differently: Rank Math sets a post's meta description to the excerpt out of the box, so a generated excerpt is used as the search snippet with no further setup. Yoast ships with an empty meta description template and will not use the excerpt for the search snippet until you set one. Search Appearance > Content Types > Posts, and set the meta description to %%excerpt%%. Yoast does already fall back to the excerpt for Facebook and X descriptions. For any other SEO plugin, look for its post-type description template and set it to that plugin's excerpt variable. Either way the excerpt is worth filling: themes, feeds, search results pages, archive listings and social previews all use it regardless of your SEO setup.
Only when you trigger it: the post title; the post content with tags stripped and truncated to the first 3,000 characters; the existing excerpt for Rewrite and Tidy; your publication, site-type and audience description; the post author's name, job title, employer and a short biography summary where those exist; and any custom instruction you have set. It goes to the provider you configured, and nowhere else. Your content is never sent to Freemius. The full disclosure is in the External services section below.