While building my site here at Red Letter Creative, I ran into a lot of situations where Wordpress fell a little short of what I wanted it to do. Page Excerpts were one of those situations. If you haven’t noticed already, Wordpress has an optional excerpt field for posts, but not for pages; which presents a problem for me when I’m using Dan Cameron’s Search Everything plugin and returning the search results via the_excerpt_rss() function.

I wanted to see pictures in the search results to help distinguish what post related to what. And since Wordpress doesn’t natively support page excerpt overrides at this moment, I found myself on the Wordpress Support Forums where they had an answer. Considering the fact that most people don’t like modifying the core code, I wrapped the answer up in a plugin. I know this has been done (link broken) before to some degree, but what I wanted was rather simple: take advantage of the existing functionality and give the user access to it.

This will probably be implemented into the Wordpress core soon, so I don’t know how long this plugin will be relevant. But until then…feel free to download.