Automatically create excerpts for Wordpress that is aware of sentence and space boundaries. Ensure that UTF-8 characters are not split and that CJK languages (without spaces) are handled correctly. Released as open-source and free using the MIT licence.

Documentation

No documentation. Just download, unzip and upload the PHP file to your Wordpress plugins directory.

Downloads

The current version of ML Fancy Excerpt is 1.0 (last updated: 3 Mar 2007)

Download ml-fancy-excerpt-1.0.zip (about 2Kb)

Examples

These examples are actual output of the excerpt function.

SENTENCE BREAK

Apropos of nothing, according to some etymologies, Patagonia means big feet. The area in my immediate surrounds are the northern part of Patagonia, a land of dreams for all hikers. A name that has been used and abused by camping equipment manufacturers and retailers all around the world. (…)

SPACE BREAK

Come the day after new years, and we are ready to get out of the city and up a mountain. We have managed (with some difficulty) to book a guide to climb Mt Tronador tomorrow. Mt Tronador (Thunder Mountain) is known as such because of the multiple glaciers plastered around it’s slopes that (…)

CJK BREAK

Hola todos! 「英語出来ねー。何してるの？」って聞かれたから日本語のエントリを書く。久 しぶりだからごめんね。要約はヨーロッパへ行き、スペインを友達と一緒 に1週間半旅行し、フランスとスイスを6週間バイクで旅し、今アルゼンチ (…)

Change History

1.0 (3 Mar 2007)
Got sick of the other excerpt functions and wrote my own.