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Easy Custom Auto Excerpt

v2.5.0
by todiadiyatmo · 4.5 (148 reviews)

Auto Excerpt for your posts on home, search and archive pages. Customize Read More button and thumbnail image. Easy to configure and have a lot of opt …

8K+ active installs Updated Apr 16, 2024 Tested to 6.5.5
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About Easy Custom Auto Excerpt

Easy Custom Auto Excerpt is a WordPress plugin that allows you to customize the excerpts of your posts on home, search, and archive pages. You can adjust the length, alignment, read more button text, and thumbnail image. The free version has all the basic features, but there is also a premium version available with additional customization options.

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Changelog

2.5.0

  • Fixed bug: Password-protected post content should not be shown

2.4.12

  • New license manager

2.4.11

  • Add new option to set excert font size
  • Add new option to link image inside excerpt to single post

2.4.10

  • Fixed some bugs in settings page

2.4.9

  • Fixed some minor bugs in character excerpt

2.4.8

  • Fixed bug in excerpt method character

2.4.7

  • Fixed sanitize & escape to prevent XSS

2.4.6

  • Added feature: Customize button HTML (PRO version)
  • Fixed bug: post is password protected
  • Updated settings page
  • Updated compatibility for WordPress 4.9

2.4.5

  • Bugfix unicode HTML-ENTITIES and UTF-8

2.4.4

  • Excerpt method by 1st paragraph now available in FREE version!
  • Excerpt method by 2nd paragraph now available in FREE version!
  • Excerpt method by 3rd paragraph now available in FREE version!
  • Fixed various bugs

2.4.3

  • Bugfix unicode utf8 chars

2.4.2

  • Added feature: add dots ([…]) at the end of the excerpt
  • Fixed various bugs
  • Updated compatibility for WordPress 4.8

2.4.1

  • Fixed manual excerpt bug

2.4

  • Fixed bug: HTML validator error because of inline style
  • Fixed bug: password content not displayed correctly
  • Fixed bug: WordPress shows its read more link when using <!--more--> tag
  • Added feature: Remove theme’s featured image when ECAE uses featured image to prevent double images
  • Added feature: user can now select the featured image thumbnail size to show
  • Added feature: user can now use featured image for “Excerpt” field content
  • Added feature: “read more text” and “text before link” now compatible with WPML
  • Premium user bug fix: can’t load the license page
  • Updated compability for WordPress 4.7

2.3.4

  • Minor fix
  • Updated compability for WordPress 4.6

2.3.3

  • Change admin menu position to root

2.3.2

  • Fixing post type selection on advanced excerpt location
  • Fixing post editor error that affects some users
  • Fixing page excerpt function

2.3.1.5

  • Fixing backend UI after updated to WordPress 4.4

2.3.1

  • Updated permalink

2.3.0

  • Fixing google font http/https protocol
  • Fix known bugs

2.2.9

  • Hide ads when premium key is registered
  • Fix known bugs

2.2.8

  • Fixing issue with WPML
  • Fix known bugs

2.2.7

  • Fixing compatibility to image caption
  • Fix known bugs

2.2.6

  • Fix plugin updater

2.2.5

  • Add an ability to make the button inline with the content
  • Add an ability to make the button font same as content font
  • Add plugin updater
  • Fix known bugs

2.2.0

  • Add disable excerpt on RSS Feed option
  • Add button shortcode
  • Add German translation
  • Add French translation
  • Add Spanish translation
  • Fix known bugs

2.1.6

  • Add Serbian translation (thanks to Ogi Djuraskovic)

2.1.5

  • Add new advanced excerpt location options
  • Add new excerpt size options in each location
  • Improved translation
  • Fix known bugs

2.1.0

  • Fix word preserved for word excerpt method
  • Tested up to WordPress 4.0
  • Fix known bugs

2.0.9

  • Add option to do excerpt in pages
  • Redesign free button style
  • Fix known bugs

2.0.8

  • Fix known bugs

2.0.7

  • Add option to always show “read more” link
  • Change behaviour for premium promo notification
  • Fix known bugs

2.0.6

  • Add option to strip empty HTML tags
  • Add option to change special method (change between yes and no to if there is a fatal error)
  • Change behavior for position method left and right (premium edition)
  • Fix known bugs

2.0.5

  • Add image position method: left, right, center, float left, float right (premium edition)
  • Add image width and image margin options
  • Fix known bugs

2.0.4

  • Fix known bugs

2.0.3

  • Decrease file size
  • Fix known bugs

2.0.2

  • Add new excerpt method: show 1st, 1st – 2nd and 1st – 3rd paragraph (premium edition)
  • Add option to change font size (premium edition)
  • Updated display image options
  • Fix known bugs

2.0.1

  • Add option to disable excerpt in every single post (premium edition)
  • Fix known bugs

2.0.0

  • Updated admin UI, more easy and intuitive
  • Add select font option (premium edition)
  • Add select button theme option (premium edition)
  • Add custom css option
  • Add front page excerpt option
  • Fix known bugs

1.0.8

  • Improve excerpt algorithm
  • Add read more option

1.0.7

  • Add Spanish translation, thanks to Andrew Kurtis ~ webhostinghub.com
  • Better excerpt cropping algorithm

1.0.6

  • Minor bug fix

1.0.5

  • Add options to disable read more.

1.0.4

  • Fix remove / add image in excerpt option

1.0.3

  • Add better handling for image

1.0.2

  • Add strip element, for better excerpt

1.0.1

  • Improve regex handling, add rules for and
  • return real excerpt from the post if it is exist
  • Fix Compability with PHP 5.4

1.0.0

  • Add option to keep / preserve the image
  • Excerpt now preserve word
  • Tested on WP 3.6 !

0.92

  • Custom Read More Text

0.91

  • Bugfix on incorect header

0.9

  • First Release

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