excerpt manager plugin
This is probably one of the most useless plugins ever written, but I had an itch I needed to scratch.
The aim of the plugin is to control the amount of text send in the rss feed, and the amount of text displayed on pages which display multiple posts.
RSS: By default if you do not specify an excerpt to be used, and you do not insert the “more” tag into your post, wordpress will send exactly 55 words in the feed, which usually cause a fragment of a paragraph to be send. Not a very user friendly feature.
The plugin sends in the rss full paragraph. You can configure the amount of words to be used as a guideline to the number of paragraphs to send. If the guidline breaks a paragraph before its middle point, the paragraph is not sent; otherwise the full paragraph is sent.
Multiple posts: Much like the RSS feed, there is no way to control the excerpt used by wordpress themes which show excerpt of posts on multi posts pages. And much like the in the RSS feed the plugin gives you control on the amount of text displayed as the excerpt.
Sounds interesting? give it a try. Save it from here, put it into your plugins directory, and activate it.
This plugin was strongly inspired by the following great code.