Easy Custom Auto Excerpt Premium

Excerpt sources and cutoffs

Easy Custom Auto Excerpt Premium configures post previews on home, front page, search, archive, and custom archive pages. If a post has a WordPress Read More marker, the add-on uses it. Otherwise, it uses the excerpt written for the post, then generates one automatically if neither is available.

Character mode cuts content at the configured excerpt size. Paragraph mode shows one or more opening paragraphs, with settings based on the first, second, or third paragraph. Settings can strip shortcodes and remove empty HTML tags.

Display locations and content

Choose where excerpts appear, including the blog, front page, search results, archives, and custom archive pages. Advanced location settings can target post types or categories. Other controls set text alignment, preserve written excerpts and pictures, and enable excerpt output in RSS feeds.

Image and read more settings

Content Image settings can display all visible images, only the first image, or the post’s featured image. Premium controls adjust image position, width, and margin. Position, width, and margin apply when Content Image is set to Show Only First Image or Use Featured Image; featured image mode also supports thumbnail-size selection.

Read more settings control the link text, text before the link, alignment, and whether the button appears normally, always, or never. The link can be displayed inline with the paragraph. Premium adds 10 font types, a custom font size, 40+ button themes, and custom button HTML. To hide the read more link, enter a hyphen in its text field.

Theme compatibility and setup

The extension works with themes that call the_content() or the_excerpt() on home, search, and archive pages. It does not support themes that use custom functions to show excerpts, including Total, OceanWP, Writee, and Customizr. The installation instructions state that both the free and Premium extensions must be installed to use the Premium edition. Settings are in Excerpt > Settings in WordPress Administration.

The plugin directory notes that the plugin has not been tested with the latest three major WordPress releases, so compatibility with current versions is uncertain.