Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)

kuck1u

You don’t need to enter an excerpt. Plug-ins auto-create excerpt from the content.
<ul>
<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.

Tim Eckel

Try it out on a free dummy site here => <a href="https://demo.tastewp.com/read-more-excerpt-link" rel="nofollow ugc">https://demo.tastewp.com/read-more-excerpt-link</a>
When WordPress makes an excerpt from your post content, it crops the content and adds an ellipsis […] to the end. This plugin changes the ellipsis to a Read More link to the full post content.
You can change the Read More link text to anything you wish from the Read More Excerpt submenu on the WordPress Settings menu.
Also from the Read More Excerpt submenu, you can specify the excerpt word length (WordPress defaults to 55 words).
Additionally, you can force the Read More link to show even when an excerpt is entered or when a read more tag is added to the content. This is turned on from the Read More Excerpt submenu with the Show More Frequently checkbox.
The Read More link uses the class read-more-link, so you can stylize the link any way you wish.

VA Excerpt From Content vs Read More Excerpt Link