Andrew Ozz

Excerpt Editor provides a convenient place for creating and editing all excerpts. It can also add custom excerpts for pages (not possible without a plugin). Features: auto-creating excerpts when publishing new Posts and Pages, displaying customisable excerpts from the content for posts without an excerpt, appending excerpts from the latest posts to each Post or from the sub-pages to each Page, replacing the content for all archive and tags pages with excerpts (eliminates content duplication for SEO).
The excerpts can be used in the RSS feed, displayed on the Home or Archive pages and/or used for meta descriptions. The excerpts can be in any language supported by WordPress and the plugin contains .pot file to facilitate translations.

Excerpt Editor

Quick edit or create excerpts for both Posts and Pages, auto-generate and append excerpts or replace the content with excerpts.

Marcus Downing

Zaybiz

A simple plugin to enhance your use of the_excerpt() function. Allows you to change the default title and description of the excerpt box, add an excerpt box to pages and show a customizable jQuery character counter with the ability to limit the amount of characters.
The jQuery character counter from <a href="http://tomdeater.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tom Deater</a> provides a user friendly way to limit the amount of characters while writing.

Excerpt Tools

Change the default text and description of the excerpt box, add an excerpt box to pages and show a jQuery character counter and limiter.

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