Page Excerpt Widget

This plugin allows the user to place a widget with an excerpt of a page in any sidebar. Dropdown menu for page, amount of characters adjustable.

Frequently updated
Very good! This plugin is actively maintained and the last update was released 3655 days ago.
This plugin is not tested with the last major release of WordPress
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There is no information available which PHP version this plugin requires
The latest stable PHP 8.4.3 was released on 16 January 2025
No information about vulnerabilities and unfixed security issues is available.
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Ratings

Active installs

300

Total Downloads

10K

Support Threads

Last updated

15 January 2015

Added

11 July 2012

Versions

100%

Version 0.3

Screenshots

This shows the widget in the backend and the options the user has.

This shows the output of the widget in the twenty eleven theme.

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Rating

Based on 6 on WordPress.org

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About Page Excerpt Widget

I have created a little WordPress plugin in the shape of a widget, which allows the user to display an excerpt of a page in a sidebar area of their choice.
I wrote this to replace a little theme hack I did for a client, where the front page was supposed to have an excerpt of a page on the front page, of course linking to the full page. Instead of keeping it that way and hard coding the page-id, I wanted something where the end user could change which page was supposed to be linked. I hope it will be of use to someone.

Right now you can:

Define the amount of characters to use as an excerpt
Select the page from all existing pages
Link the title of the page, to the page
Append a link to the page
Decide a custom label for the read more link
add multiple instances of the widget

I plan to increase the functionality with:

some internationalisation

Suggestions welcome

Since this is my first plugin and widget, suggestions, improvements and more are very welcome. I’ve also published the code on github, for easier discussion and improvement. https://github.com/JonathanMH/page-excerpt-widget