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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.
Excerpts are either manually crafted or (usually poorly) automatically extracted from the main post content. Hand crafted ones are better because
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<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>
This plugin will enforce the use of hand-crafted excerpts by your users by preventing a post without an excerpt from being published.
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>.
<h3>Upgrading from a previous version</h3>
Use the upgrade link in the Dashboard (Dashboard > Updates) to upgrade this plugin.
<h3>License and Disclaimer</h3>
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 
the Free Software Foundation.
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.
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>

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).

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.

Mandatory Excerpts for WordPress vs Toggle wpautop