How to create a global configuration for Better Excerpts

The Better Excerpts add-on has a global configuration that applies to every campaign. Set it once, and each campaign can still use its own options when it needs them. It also works without WPeMatico, for any WordPress site.

Go to WPeMatico β†’ Settings and open the Better Excerpts tab. The options are grouped in three boxes.

1. How the Excerpt Is Built
Length, end and what to strip.

Set the length of the excerpt in words or characters, choose whether to cut at the end of the last whole sentence or exactly at that length, and decide what to strip: the HTML tags (except the ones you allow), the images, the links and the shortcodes. You can also build the excerpt with your own template.

How the excerpt is built options of the better excerpts add-on

2. Where Excerpts Are Saved and Used
When they are created and where they are shown.

Create the excerpts when WPeMatico saves each post, replace the content of the posts with their excerpt, or use the excerpts across the site, in your theme and in your RSS feed.

Where excerpts are saved and used options of the better excerpts add-on

3. The “Read More” Link
At the end of the excerpt.

Add a custom Read more text, choose whether it links to your own post or to the source website, and whether it opens in a new tab.

Read more link options of the better excerpts add-on

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