Get better excerpt

WordPress trims excerpts by counting characters, which means it will happily cut a word in half. You end up with "the project was near comple" trailing off into nowhere. I wrote this so excerpts stop at whole words instead. What you get Drop-in replacement for get_the_excerpt() that returns whole words Trims to your chosen length, then backs up to the last complete word instead of slicing through one No settings page. It does its one job wherever your theme pulls the excerpt. Who it's for Anyone whose post listings, archive pages, or related-post blocks show automatic excerpts and occasionally cut a word in two. WordPress 5.4 and later handle this better than core once did, but the mid-word cut still shows up in some edge cases, especially with multibyte characters and custom excerpt lengths. If you have never seen a chopped word in your excerpts, you do not need this. How to install Dow