6 Best Easy Custom Auto Excerpt Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Easy Custom Auto Excerpt has 6,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 6 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 6 closest alternatives to Easy Custom Auto Excerpt
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Front Page Category
Closest match4.0 (26) 5,000+ active installsA plugin that lets you select the categories that appear on the front page of your WordPress site.
Shares the home tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, no update since January 30, 2024.
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4.9 (32) 9,000+ active installsEasily disable the default wpautop filter on a post by post basis.
Shares the excerpt tag on WordPress.org. About 1.5 times the installs, no update since April 7, 2021.
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4.8 (43) 2,000+ active installsDynamic menus: List all posts from a category in your menu. Also works for tags, custom taxonomies as well as pages and custom post types.
Shares the automatic tag on WordPress.org. About a third of the installs, last updated 10 days ago.
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4.7 (30) 6,000+ active installsSimple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list.
Shares the archive tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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4.8 (45) 3,000+ active installsA JS widget (can be used in posts) for displaying an archive list with some effects.
Shares the archive tag on WordPress.org. About half the installs, last updated April 3, 2026.
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4.9 (36) 5,000+ active installsUse an "Archived" status to unpublish content without having to trash it.
Shares the archive tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated February 17, 2026.
Switching from Easy Custom Auto Excerpt: common questions
What is the best alternative to Easy Custom Auto Excerpt?
Front Page Category is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 5,000+ active installs with a 4.0 out of 5 rating.
Which Easy Custom Auto Excerpt alternative has the most users?
Toggle wpautop, with 9,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Are these Easy Custom Auto Excerpt alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Easy Custom Auto Excerpt score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Easy Custom Auto Excerpt on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Front Page Category is the closest match to Easy Custom Auto Excerpt by the data we track, and Toggle wpautop has the widest reach with 9,000+ active installs. Category Posts in Custom Menu shipped the most recent release, on August 28, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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