Auto Excerpt

Hey finchkelsey,

Thank you for the inquiry.

We are not aware of any plugin that has this option, but you can try the following hook in the functions.php file. It retrieves the content of the first Text Block element on the page and sets it as the excerpt.

function av_set_excerpt_alb($post_id) {
    if (defined('DOING_AUTOSAVE') && DOING_AUTOSAVE) return;
    if (wp_is_post_revision($post_id)) return;

    $post = get_post($post_id);
    if (!$post || empty($post->post_content)) return;

    if (preg_match('/\[av_textblock.*?\](.*?)\[\/av_textblock\]/s', $post->post_content, $matches)) {
        $text_content = wp_strip_all_tags($matches[1]); 

        $excerpt = wp_trim_words($text_content, 55, '...');

        remove_action('save_post', 'av_set_excerpt_alb'); 
        wp_update_post([
            'ID'           => $post_id,
            'post_excerpt' => $excerpt,
        ]);
        add_action('save_post', 'av_set_excerpt_alb');
    }
}
add_action('save_post', 'av_set_excerpt_alb');

Best regards,
Ismael

Hey!

You may need to edit the posts and update them. The excerpt will not be visible in the Excerpt field, but it will be saved as post_excerpt in the database.

Best regards,
Ismael

Hey!

Thank you for the inquiry.

As mentioned above, the code will look for the first Text Block in the page builder and save it as the post excerpt. I assumed your very first Text Block on the page will contain your most important content, but if that’s not the case, you will need to edit the page and adjust the position of the elements, making sure that the very first Text Block contains the content you want to retrieve.

Let us know if you need more info.

Cheers!
Ismael