So, you’ve been working on your WordPress-based website or blog for quite some time now, developed excellent content, and gathered a following. Now you need a way to show snippets of blog posts for a given category, but you need more flexibility than WordPress’s built-in “excerpt” function can provide.

Enter: Advanced Excerpt

In the hands of anyone with some WordPress development experience, Advanced Excerpt becomes a powerful tool for presenting snippets of content. I’ve used it to display “mini-posts” below most recent posts (a la Mashable), filter offending <object>,<embed>, and other tags, and to overcome other limitations of the built in excerpt function.

Have questions about how you can use Advanced Excerpt to display your content better? Post ‘em in the comments!

Coming soon…. “WordPress Mini-posts Using the Advanced Excerpt Plugin”