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

• Is the number of characters set in the “excerpt_length” filter.
• “Continue reading” setting in the “excerpt_more” filter.
• If there is “<!–more–>” does not create an excerpt.

• 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’ );

Requires

• WordPress 4.5 or higher
• PHP 5.6+

Contribute!

You can fork the plugin from GitHub