This plugin allows the user to place a widget with an excerpt of a page in any sidebar. Dropdown menu for page, amount of characters adjustable.
| Author: | Jonathan M. Hethey (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.8 |
| WordPress version tested: | 4.1 |
| Plugin version: | 0.3 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 11-07-2012 |
| Last updated: | 15-01-2015
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 100 |
| Rated by: | 6 |
| Plugin URI: | http://jonathanmh.com/wordpress-page-excerpt-... |
| Total downloads: | 12 270 |
| Active installs: | 200+ |
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I have created a little WordPress plugin in the shape of a widget, which allows the user to display an excerpt of a page in a sidebar area of their choice. I wrote this to replace a little theme hack I did for a client, where the front page was supposed to have an excerpt of a page on the front page, of course linking to the full page. Instead of keeping it that way and hard coding the page-id, I wanted something where the end user could change which page was supposed to be linked. I hope it will be of use to someone.
Right now you can:
- Define the amount of characters to use as an excerpt
- Select the page from all existing pages
- Link the title of the page, to the page
- Append a link to the page
- Decide a custom label for the read more link
- add multiple instances of the widget
I plan to increase the functionality with:
- some internationalisation
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