Title: Fork: Category Filter, Excerpt Cut Markers, Block option, auto-closing tags
Last modified: December 11, 2025

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# Fork: Category Filter, Excerpt Cut Markers, Block option, auto-closing tags

 *  [eugenevv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eugenevv/)
 * (@eugenevv)
 * [6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-6/)
 * [https://github.com/EugeneVVV/advanced-excerpt-enhanced](https://github.com/EugeneVVV/advanced-excerpt-enhanced)
 * Howdy,
 * This plugin is awesome, thank you for creating it! I am not sure if it is still
   maintained, but I needed to add a couple of features, so I’ve forked it. Feel
   free to reintegrate it if you ever get around to it.
   One issue is that Advanced
   Excerpt does NOT work with Query Loop block or Recent Posts block, and fixing
   that would require a complete refactoring. Instead, I’ve added support for category
   filter on “All Posts”, which, admittedly, is less versatile, but sufficient for
   most use cases nonetheless – just add links to other category archives as menu
   items.
 * Then I added support for shortcode markers that may be placed around some content
   in order to exclude it from the excerpt.
 * Lastly, I’ve enhanced the excerpt logic to close relevant HTML tags automatically
   and not break mid-sentence or mid-tag attributes. While modern browsers are very
   forgiving, some RSS readers are less so. Default option is now end of “block”,
   not end of sentence (or first period after some abbreviation, mistaken for end
   of sentence – oh, that was frustrating). While at it, I’ve added various ways
   to handle lists and tables within the block – how many of them to include in 
   the excerpt, how many rows/items, and so on.
   Enjoy!
    -  This topic was modified 6 months ago by [eugenevv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eugenevv/).
      Reason: Title
    -  This topic was modified 6 months ago by [eugenevv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eugenevv/).
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 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ffork-6%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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## Tags

 * [fork](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fork/)
 * [query loop](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/query-loop/)
 * [RSS](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rss/)

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 * Last activity: [6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fork-6/)
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