Tyler Tork

<p>Like blog posts, a Page can have an “Excerpt” field to override the automatic excerpt of 55 words from the beginning of the content. However, many themes don’t display this field when editing pages, so you can’t edit it.</p>
<p>This extremely simple plugin forces page excerpt capability “on”. The Page excerpt is visible in internal search results and “Query Loop” blocks, as well as in the output of many plugins (e.g. CC Child Pages). So I generally do want to decide for myself whether to accept the default excerpt.</p>


Torknado Page Excerpt

Pages, like Posts, can have an Excerpt field to override the automatic "first 55 words" excerpt. However, many themes don't enable edit …

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.

Torknado Page Excerpt vs TinyMCE Excerpt