matteotrap

WordPress Excerpts should be short, you know.
But when a user writes a lot, you might want to limit the number of characters for the excerpt panel: that’s where the Excerpt Character Limiter plugin comes handy!
It will basically add a character countdown to the panel titlebar, and it will truncate the text when available characters drop to zero. 
Simple but effective!

Excerpt character limiter

It will basically add a character countdown to the panel titlebar, and it will truncate the text when available characters drop to zero.

wooassist

Storefront Blog Excerpts

Thanks this was exactly what I was looking for. Love the customize controls.



Perfect!

Change the post content area on your archive pages to show the excerpt instead of the full content.

Excerpt character limiter vs Storefront Blog Excerpts