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