Easy Custom Auto Excerpt for WordPress Plugin Directory
By todiadiyatmo
Easy Custom Auto Excerpt is a WordPress app, with a 4.5 average rating from 151 reviews, as of Jul 17, 2026.
Easy Custom Auto Excerpt is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by todiadiyatmo. With a rating of 4.5★ from 151 reviews.
AppRanks data: Easy Custom Auto Excerpt ranks #0 in Archive on WordPress Plugin Directory, placing it in the top 1% of that category.
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Easy Custom Auto Excerpt is a highly rated WordPress app with a growing review traction. It is listed in the Automatic category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 151 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
- +High average rating (4.5★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by todiadiyatmo — established developer track record
Cons
- −No declared third-party integrations on the listing — verify compatibility with your existing tools before installing
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How Easy Custom Auto Excerpt works
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Easy Custom Auto Excerpt is a WordPress plugin to cut/excerpt your posts displayed in home, search or archive pages. This plugin also enables you to customize the read more button text and thumbnail image. Just activate the plugin, configure some options and you’re good to go 🙂
ECAE only works on themes that call the_content() or the_excerpt() on home, search & archive pages. ECAE does not support themes that use custom functions to display excerpt, like Total, OceanWP, Writee, and Customizr.
The free version comes with everything you need to auto excerpt your content.
Live Demo | Premium Version | Documentation | Support Forum
Features:
Excerpt your posts based on character length.
Choose to excerpt your posts on home, search, archive, or custom archive pages.
Align text (Justify, Right, Left, Center) your text based on your preference.
Custom Read More text and Button.
Preserve Image on Excerpt.
Preserve real excerpt you wrote.
Partial Indonesian and Spanish translation.
Enable excerpt on RSS feed.
Excerpt method by 1st paragraph, 2nd paragraph, and 3rd paragraph
Premium Features: And if you like our plugin and want to do more customization we offer the premium version with some added features:
Adjust Image Excerpt Position (left, right, center, float left and float right)
Adjust Image width and margin
Disable excerpt on specific post
10 Read More font type and custom font size
40+ Read More button themes.
Customize button HTML
Get the premium version: Easy Custom Auto Excerpt Premium
Plugin Demo You can try the plugin on this URL: http://coba.tonjoostudio.com
username: coba
password: 123456
Information if you have any questions, comment, customization request or suggestion please contact us via our support forum
Find more detail on our official site: Easy Custom Auto Excerpt Premium
Or you can find our best plugins at Tonjoo Studio
We can also modify your WordPress plugins according to your needs. Visit us : Tonjoo WordPress Developer
Install Instruction
Install the plugin.
In the Admin Panel, Go to Excerpt -> Settings.
Customize the settings according to your need.
To remove read more link, fill read more text with “-” (without quote)
Please have a time to understand how this plugin is generating excerpt :
If the post has read more, then the read more will be used.
If the post doesn’t have read more, then post excerpt will be used.
If the post doesn’t have read more and excerpt, then it will automagically generate excerpt.
Usage Instruction General Options
Excerpt method
Paragraph method will cut per paragraph
Character method will cut per character based on characters count of Excerpt Size
The left options is to only show one or more paragraph from beginning of the content
Excerpt Size
The number of characters to show based on Paragraph or Character Excerpt Method
Strip shortcode
If you select ‘yes’ any shortcode will be eliminated from the excerpt
Strip empty HTML tags
If you select ‘yes’ any empty HTML tags will be eliminated from the excerpt
Disable on RSS Feed
Disable this plugin on RSS feed page
Special method
This basically will fix some error on some themes
Content Options
Text align
The plugin will try to align the excerpt
Display Image Options
Content image
Option to select what image to show on the excerpt
“Show all images” will show all the images on the visible content
“Show only first image” will only show the first image on the content
“Use Featured Image” will show the post’s featured image
Image position, Image width, and Image margin [PREMIUM VERSION]
This options is to configure how to show the image
This options is work only on Content Image: Show Only First Image and Use Featured Image
Below the screenshots of the some image options
Image thumbnail size [PREMIUM VERSION]
This is an option so select what image size to show
This options is work only on Content Image: Use Featured Image
Excerpt location
Basic settings
Option to determine the location to show the excerpt, i.e. blog page, front page, archive page, and search page
User can also select which page to enable the excerpt
Advanced settings
This is an advanced settings of the location, which is users can select the post type or category to show on the each option, like blog page or front page
Read more button
Display option
Normal : show readmore button, only if content length is bigger than excerpt size
Always Show : always show the readmore button
Always Hide : always hide the readmore button
Read more text
The text to show on read more link
Text after content
The text located right after the content, for example dots “[…]”. This element can be styled by css with selector “.ecae-dots”
Inline Button
The plugin will try to make the read more link inline with the paragraph
Readmore align
The plugin will try to align the read more link
Button font [PREMIUM VERSION]
The font of read more link and the text before link
Button font size [PREMIUM VERSION]
The font size of read more link and the text before link
Text before button link
Text before read more link
Button link type [SEPARATED PREMIUM VERSION]
The style of read more link
> Notes: both Read more text and Text before link can be translated with WPML string translation. After you save the ECAE option, go to the WPML String Translation and then search for domain name “easy-custom-auto-excerpt”. The text is the one named “Readmore text” and “Before readmore text” (see the attached image below).
Button Shortcode You can manually add the button by put this shortcode to your post: [ecae_button] Required “strip shortcode options” = No
Read More Live Preview The preview of read more link and the text before link
Custom CSS Allow user to add the custom css for the read more link and the text before link
License
Registering the license code is useful to get the regular updates of ECAE premium
Registering the license code will also remove the tonjoostudio ads
Translation :
Bahasa Indonesia : Todi ~ @todiadiyatmo
Serbian : Ogi Djuraskovic ~ firstsiteguide.com
German
French
Spanish
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Where Easy Custom Auto Excerpt stands in the Automatic category
Easy Custom Auto Excerpt ranks #0 of 25 apps in the Automatic category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Easy Custom Auto Excerpt?
Easy Custom Auto Excerpt is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.5-star rating from 151 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. It is listed under the Automatic category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by todiadiyatmo.