tepelstreel

The RSS Image Feed doesn’t create a feed of images, but ataches the first image of the post to your feeds. Normally only the content has images showing. With our plugin there will be a clickable image even in the excerpt and in the content there will be only one image instead of all the images of the post. Since version 2.2 it works as a multisite plugin as well.
The plugin was tested up to WP 4.5 It should work with versions down to 2.7 but was never tested on those.

RSS Image Feed

The RSS Image Feed adds the first image of a post to your feeds, even in firefox and even if you only display the excerpt.

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.

RSS Image Feed vs Excerpt Tools