Title: Post Description Plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Post Description Plugin

 *  [runcible](https://wordpress.org/support/users/runcible/)
 * (@runcible)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-description-plugin/)
 * I really dislike the whole “blah blah blah…(read more)” format of posts. I want
   to be able to write my own short descriptions and not have the software generate
   them for me just by grabbing the first couple dozen characters of a post. Is 
   there a plugin for WordPress that can let me do this?

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 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-description-plugin/#post-330181)
 * Under the post editor, you have the opportunity to explicitly write an “Optional
   excerpt”, that should be used instead of the “blah blah blah…”. May be theme 
   dependent though.
 *  [roblgs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roblgs/)
 * (@roblgs)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-description-plugin/#post-330256)
 * Hi,
 * You might also like to look at the [Content Extract plugin](http://www.webspaceworks.com/resources/cat/wp-plugins/44)
   for WordPress that was developed in WP2, but which should also work in 1.5+.
 * This will give a bit more control over how an extract gets output, and a coming
   upgrade makes some further improvements.
 * This plugin will work with explicit excerpts, the <!–more–> tag, or specific 
   word or sentence counts for auto-generated “blah, blah, blah…”‘s, along with 
   allowing the check length and cut length to be specified separately from each
   other.
 * Cheers
 * Rob

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