Easy Custom Auto Excerpt Premium

Easy Custom Auto Excerpt Premium controls how posts appear as excerpts on home, front page, search, archive, and custom archive pages. Choose how the excerpt is made, where it appears, and how its images and read more link are displayed.

Which content appears in the excerpt?

If a post has a WordPress Read More marker, the extension uses it. Without that marker, it uses the excerpt written for the post; if neither is available, it generates an excerpt automatically. 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.

Choose excerpt locations and, in the advanced location options, narrow them by post type or category. Other settings control text alignment, preserve written excerpts or images, enable excerpt output in RSS feeds, strip shortcodes, and remove empty HTML tags. A special method setting may help address errors on some themes.

How images appear

Choose to display all images in the visible excerpt, only its first image, or the post’s featured image. Premium lets you set image position to left, right, center, float left, or float right, and adjust image width and margin. Those position and sizing controls apply when using the first image or featured image. Thumbnail size applies only to the featured image.

Read more settings

Choose Normal to show the read more button only when the content exceeds the excerpt size, Always Show, or Always Hide. You can set the link text, text before the link, alignment, and inline display. Premium includes 10 font types, a custom font size, more than 40 button themes, and custom button HTML. Enter a hyphen in the read more text field to remove the link.

To add the button manually in a post, use [ecae_button] and set Strip shortcode to No.

Theme compatibility and setup

The plugin 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 display excerpts, including Total, OceanWP, Writee, and Customizr.

1. Install both the free and Premium plugins to use the Premium edition.
2. In the WordPress Administration, open Excerpt > Settings.
3. Choose the excerpt method, size, display locations, alignment, image settings, and read more options.
4. Adjust the Premium image, button, and per-post exclusion settings as needed.
5. Save the settings and review excerpts on the selected pages.