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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.

Jonathan Desrosiers

Linchpin

Aaron Ware

Note: This plugin does not support the block editor but should continue to work without issue when using it with custom post types and the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/" rel="ugc">Classic Editor Plugin</a>.
Before WordPress displays a post’s content, the content gets passed through multiple filters to ensure that it safely appears how you enter it within the editor.
One of these filters is <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpautop" title="wpautop" rel="nofollow ugc">wpautop</a>, which replaces double line breaks with <code></code> tags, and single line breaks with <code> </code> tags. However, this filter sometimes causes issues when you are inputting a lot of HTML markup in the post editor.
This plugin displays a checkbox in the publish meta box of the post edit screen that disables the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wpautop" title="wpautop" rel="nofollow ugc">wpautop</a> filter for that post.
Also adds a ‘wpautop’, or ‘no-wpautop’ class to the post_class filter to help with CSS styling.

Toggle wpautop

Easily disable the default wpautop filter on a post by post basis.

Excerpt character limiter vs Toggle wpautop