Compact Archives vs Easy Custom Auto Excerpt

The built-in WordPress archives widget is great for new blogs, but it doesn’t look as good for more established blogs like WPBeginner. Compact Archives displays the monthly archive of posts in a more compact form rather than the usual long list. It can be shown as a compact block suitable for the body of an archives page: 2009: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2008: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 2007: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec or in an even more compact form to fit a sidebar: 2009: J F M A M J J A S O N D 2008: J F M A M J J A S O N D 2007: J F M A M J J A S O N D or something in between: 2009: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 2008: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 2007: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 Compact Archive plugin works seamlessly with Gutenberg Block Editor, Classic Editor, and WordPress widgets. What’s Next If you like this plugin, then consider checking out our other projects: OptinMonster – Get More Email Subscribers with the most popular conversion optimization plugin for WordPress. WPForms – Best Drag & Drop WordPress Form plugin (over 1 million active installs). MonsterInsights – See the Stats that Matter and Grow Your Business with Confidence. Best Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress. SeedProd – Jumpstart your website with the #1 Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Plugin for WordPress. WP Mail SMTP – Improve email deliverability for your contact form with the most popular SMTP plugin for WordPress. Visit WPBeginner to learn from our WordPress Tutorials and find out about other best WordPress plugins. Like all plugins, Compact Archives is only available for self-hosted WordPress sites. So YES you need to switch from WordPress.com to WordPress.org in order to use this plugin on your WordPress site. For more details, see the infographic on Self hosted WordPress.org vs Free WordPress.com If you like this plugin, then please leave a good rating. For support just ask the questions here in the support forum. Credits This plugin was originally created by Rob Marsh and Aldolat added a widget for it. WPBeginner adopted the plugin and took the responsibility of keeping it updated.

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