Always Show Excerpts

After getting annoyed that the default 2017 theme was showing the full post content on every index page, I extended this support answer into this plugin that can filter calls to “the_content” and return the post excerpt instead.

1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/always-show-excerpts/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
3. Go to the Settings -> Reading page to configure the plugin, picking which types of archives should be affected.

1. 

   Settings to pick which indexes.

2. 

   Demo of an index before applying this plugin.

3. 

   Demo of an index after applying this plugin.

0.13

• Fix: Stopped creating deprecated dynamic properties for PHP 8.3

0.12

• Tested against 6.7.2
• Fix: Moved the translation text domain loading to later in the init

0.11

• Tested against 6.5, 6.4.1 and 6.3.2

0.1

• Tested against 5.6 alpha

0.1

• Tested against 5.2.4
• Initial release