=== Excerpt Editor === Contributors: Andrew Ozz Donate link: Tags: excerpt,page_excerpt,post,seo Requires at least: 2.0 Tested up to: 2.1.3 Stable tag: trunk Quick edit or create excerpts for both posts and pages. == Description == This plugin would be very useful for sites that mainly use pages (use WP as CMS) or when there are a lot of posts/pages without excerpts. It can "auto create" excerpts using the first 40-55-70-100 words from the content, optionally retaining some of the HTML tags. As some SEO plugins use the excerpt as the META description, you'll need well written excerpts if you want better visibility and SEO ranking for your site. Excerpt Editor provides a convenient place for creating and editing all of your excerpts. It can also add custom excerpts for pages (not possible without a plugin). For sites that have a lot of posts or pages spanning over longer period of time, there are options to set the "start month" for editing and also posts can be fetched month by month. As this is the first release any bug reports/fixes, suggestions and/or requests for features are welcome. Currently this plugin only supports English, but if someone wants to translate it, I'll be happy to help as much as I can. == Installation == Standard WP quick and easy installation: 1. Download. 2. Unzip. 3. Upload to the plugins folder. 4. Log in WordPress and activate the plugin. 5. Go to "Manage -> Excerpt Editor" to use it. = Advanced settings = When auto-creating excerpts from the content, you can choose to keep some tags:

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. WordPress will close any open tags, but may put the closing tag in the wrong place. Also pages with only links (a hand-made sitemap, for example) will have to be edited by hand, as each link is counted as only one word, so the excerpt will contain 40-50 links. If you are using the excerpts as META descriptions, disable all tags. == Frequently Asked Questions == = Does this plugin work on WordPress version... = Excerpt Editor has been tested on WordPress 2.0.9 and 2.1.3 = I have ... plugin installed that uses the excerpt, will there be any conflicts/incompatibilities? = Unlike most plugins, Excerpt Editor doesn't need to be activated at all times. You can activate it, wair/edit your excerpts, and then deactivate it. = Other questions? Screenshots? = Please visit the page for [Excerpt Editor](http://www.laptoptips.ca/projects/wordpress-excerpt-editor/).