theMikeD

<p>An excerpt is a (usually) brief, text-only post summary. It is used in various places of a theme when a summary of a post is needed, such as on your blog page and archive pages for terms.</p>
<p>Excerpts are either manually crafted or (usually poorly) automatically extracted from the main post content. Hand crafted ones are better because</p>
<ul>
<li>they avoid things like sentences being cut off in the mid…</li>
<li>they allow you create an actual summary and not just the first x words from the post content</li>
<li>they allow you to do better SEO targeting</li>
<li>they look better</li>
</ul>
<p>This plugin will enforce the use of hand-crafted excerpts by your users by preventing a post without an excerpt from being published.</p>
<p>Classic editor support is based on the work done by Scott Walkinshaw and other contributors, found <a href="https://gist.github.com/swalkinshaw/2695510" rel="nofollow ugc">here</a>.</p>
<h3>Upgrading from a previous version</h3>
<p>Use the upgrade link in the Dashboard (Dashboard > Updates) to upgrade this plugin.</p>
<h3>License and Disclaimer</h3>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License 2 as published by<br />
the Free Software Foundation.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.</p>
<p>The license for this software can be found here: <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html" rel="nofollow ugc">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html</a></p>


Mandatory Excerpts for WordPress

Causes the excerpt to be required before a post can be published. Supports both editor types (classic and block aka gutenberg).

Simon Wheatley

<p>This is a simple plugin that enables rich text editing on the excerpt field.</p>
<p>If you have any plugins installed which alter TinyMCE, e.g. to add additional<br />
buttons, they will also be applied to the excerpt editor.</p>
<p>Any issues: <a href="http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/contact-me/" rel="nofollow ugc">contact me</a>.</p>
<h3>Known issues / bugs</h3>
<p>Please <a href="http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/contact-me/" rel="nofollow ugc">report any issues</a> that you find.</p>
<ul>
<li>In WordPress versions prior to WordPress 2.5, when you click the “advanced toolbar” button, the advanced toolbar shows up on the<br />
Content, rather than the excerpt. Reported by <a href="http://hypenotic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jorge Villalobos</a></li>
<li>You can’t send images to the excerpt editor from the edit page file browser;<br />
you have to send them to the main editor, then copy and paste.</li>
<li>To show the excerpt you have to use a template which uses<br />
<a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt" rel="nofollow ugc">the_excerpt</a>, rather<br />
than <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_content" rel="nofollow ugc">the_content</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requests</h3>
<p>I’m simply noting requests here, I’ve not necessarily looked into how possible any of these are or how much effort they might require.</p>
<ul>
<li>It would be great if you could switch between TinyMCE and Quicktags as the content does. Requested by <a href="http://hypenotic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jorge Villalobos</a></li>
</ul>


TinyMCE Excerpt

Enables rich text editing on the excerpt field.

Mandatory Excerpts for WordPress vs TinyMCE Excerpt