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Always Show Excerpts

by keith_wp on WordPress.org

On selected types of indexes, choose to always show the excerpts for a post instead of the full post content.

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Settings to pick which indexes.

After getting annoyed that the default 2017 theme was showing the full post content on every index page, I extended this support answer into this plugin that can filter calls to “the_content” and return the post excerpt instead.

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Version0.13

Last updated4/7/2025

WordPress version4.0

Tested up to6.7.2

PHP version8.3

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