Easier Excerpts

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Excerpts are very useful when sharing your blog post content. They allow you to provide a preview of your post to your readers as well as the email marketing service used to email new blog posts to your mailing list. This ultimately drives traffic on your site as your audience reads the remainder of the blog post. But using the native excerpt functionality in WordPress can quickly become tedious. The excerpt field is small and difficult to enlarge, so it’s hard to see how much content you’ve added, let alone manage the layout of the text. This plugin fixes that problem. By activating this plugin: The excerpt field will automatically expand to fit your content or will contract if you have shorter content. There are no options – it “just works.” It does not change the appearance of anything in the editor. It works directly with the functionality you already know. It works with both new and existing posts. No data will be affected if you opt to uninstall it. Ultimately, the plugin aims to help streamline one small aspect of your blogging routine. Notes Thank you for choosing Pressware Plugins to streamline and improve your blogging! You can find all of our available plugins on our homepage. If you’re curious about the changes found in this plugin, review the Changelog above. If you opt to download a non-tagged version of the plugin (that is, the version in trunk), then know that this is a development version. Use at your own risk. Running the Tests Easier Excerpts includes a server-side test suite that verifies the plugin’s functionality works as expected. In order to use these tests, your development environment should include: PHP >= 5.6.10 WP-CLI Composer Once the tools are installed, run the following commands from within the root directory of the plugin: $ composer update $ wp scaffold plugin-tests easier-excerpts $ cd $(wp plugin path easier-excerpts --dir) $ bash bin/install-wp-tests.sh wordpress_test root root localhost latest $ vendor/bin/phpunit This will make sure that PHPUnit, WP-CLI, and the necessary scaffolding is set up and the tests are executed against the plugin without interfering with your installation of WordPress.