Catalyst Excerpts Plus for WordPress Plugin Directory
Catalyst Excerpts Plus is a WordPress app, with a 1.0 average rating from 1 review, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Catalyst Excerpts Plus is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Michael Davis. With a rating of 1.0★ from 1 reviews.
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Catalyst Excerpts Plus is a mixed-rating WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 1 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Michael Davis — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (1.0★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (1) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Catalyst Excerpts Plus works
Catalyst Excerpts Plus builds on the Catalyst Excerpts widget with additional features. This is based on the Catalyst Excerpts Widget created by Eric Hamm that comes with the Catalyst Framework. Since this plugin supports features of the Catalyst Framework it requires the Catalyst framework in order to work properly. Learn more about Catalyst…
Major features include:
Option to grab a random set of posts based on the other criteria you set previously. (i.e. If you want five post from a specific category, selecting “Random” would grab five random posts from the selected category.)
Choose to not remove HTML from titles or excerpt content. This is now restricted to a limited set of HTML tags.
Sort excerpts by hottest or coldest topic. (Posts with most/least comments.)
Additional thumbnail position control to place thumbnail below excerpt content, above it, above the title or even as the excerpt content background image.
Display latest tweets. Uses a cache file to avoid bumping up against Twitter’s hourly API call limits. (Ignores tweets starting with @)
Works for some custom post types.
Option to remove link from title and/or thumbnail.
Disable read more link without having to delete the read more text.
Disable excerpt content all together.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Catalyst Excerpts Plus?
Catalyst Excerpts Plus is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 1.0-star rating from 1 merchant review, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Michael Davis.