Easy Custom Auto Excerpt Premium controls how posts appear as excerpts on home, front, search, archive, and custom archive pages. Choose excerpt locations and, in the advanced location settings, target post types or categories.

Choose how excerpts are made

The add-on checks for a WordPress Read More marker first. If there is none, it uses the post’s written excerpt when available; if neither is present, it generates an excerpt automatically. Set the cutoff by character count or show one or more paragraphs from the start of the post, using the first, second, or third paragraph option.

Other controls set text alignment, preserve pictures or written excerpts, enable excerpts in RSS feeds, strip shortcodes, and remove empty HTML tags. A special method setting can be changed to address some theme errors.

Adjust images and continuation links

Image output can show all images in the visible excerpt content, only its first image, or the post’s featured image. Premium settings adjust image position (left, right, center, float left, or float right), width, and margin. These placement controls apply when using the first content image or the featured image. The thumbnail size setting applies to the featured image.

For the Read More link, choose among 10 font types, set a custom font size, choose from more than 40 button themes, and tailor the button HTML. You can also set the link text and its alignment or show behavior. To conceal the link, enter a hyphen in the Read More text field. The [ecae_button] shortcode includes a button manually in a post; set shortcode stripping to No for it to work.

Check theme support before 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 display excerpts, including Total, OceanWP, Writee, and Customizr.

Set up the Premium edition

1. Install both the free and Premium extensions.
2. In the WordPress administration panel, open Excerpt > Settings.
3. Choose the excerpt method and size, display locations, alignment, image options, and Read More settings.
4. Use the Premium controls for image placement, button styling, post exclusions, and custom button HTML.
5. Save the settings and review excerpts on the selected pages.