Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)

kuck1u

You don’t need to enter an excerpt. Plug-ins auto-create excerpt from the content.
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<li>Is the number of characters set in the “excerpt_length” filter.</li>
<li>“Continue reading” setting in the “excerpt_more” filter.</li>
<li>If there is “<!–more–>” does not create an excerpt.</li>
<li>
Remove the HTML to “va_excerpt_from_content_strip_all_tags” filter is true.
// remove the html. 
add_filter( ‘va_excerpt_from_content_strip_all_tags’, ‘__return_true’ );
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requires</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 4.5 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 5.6+</li>
</ul>
<h4>Contribute!</h4>
You can fork the plugin from <a href="https://github.com/visualive/va-excerpt-from-content" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>

VA Excerpt From Content

Automatically create the excerpt from content.

WPKube

FancyThemes

This plugin adds several improvements to WordPress’ default way of creating excerpts.
<ol>
<li>Keeps HTML markup in the excerpt (and you get to choose which tags are included)</li>
<li>Trims the excerpt to a given length using either character count or word count</li>
<li>Only the ‘real’ text is counted (HTML is ignored but kept)</li>
<li>Customizes the excerpt length and the ellipsis character that are used</li>
<li>Completes the last word or sentence in an excerpt (no weird cuts)</li>
<li>Adds a read-more link to the text</li>
<li>Ignores custom excerpts and use the generated one instead</li>
<li>Theme developers can use <code>the_advanced_excerpt()</code> for even more control (see the FAQ)</li>
</ol>
Most of the above features are optional and/or can be customized by the user or theme developer.
Banner image credit – <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/chillihead/" rel="nofollow ugc">chillihead</a>
Original plugin author – <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/basvd" rel="nofollow ugc">basvd</a>
Useful Resources
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fancythemes.com/what-is-wordpress/" rel="friend nofollow ugc">What is WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fancythemes.com/wordpress-themes" rel="friend nofollow ugc">Fee Themes</a> and <a href="https://fancythemes.com/wordpress-plugins/" rel="friend nofollow ugc">plugins</a></li>
</ul>

Advanced Excerpt

Control the appearance of WordPress post excerpts

VA Excerpt From Content vs Advanced Excerpt