Title: Automatic excerpt
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Automatic excerpt

 *  [subirghosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subirghosh/)
 * (@subirghosh)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpt/)
 * Hi,
    I have two questions. 1) Is there a way that I can create the Excerpt automatically
   but just pasting the Full Story? 2) Is there a way that I can limit the character
   count of the Excerpt? Thanks. Subir

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 *  [nickm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickm/)
 * (@nickm)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpt/#post-81053)
 * I’d like to know this too – if anyone responds, would you kindly let me know 
   if you figure it out?
    Thanks.
 *  [Brak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brak/)
 * (@brak)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpt/#post-81054)
 * I know that 1 is already implemented in 1.3. Takes the first x amount from your
   post.
 *  Thread Starter [subirghosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subirghosh/)
 * (@subirghosh)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpt/#post-81059)
 * That’s great. But then, Brak, when do we see 1.3? 🙂
 *  [Ozh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ozh/)
 * (@ozh)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpt/#post-81060)
 * A tricky (maybe impossible) plugin idea could be to generate the excerpt from
   guessed keywords (most frequent words, excepting a predefined list containing“
   the, of, it …)
 *  Thread Starter [subirghosh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/subirghosh/)
 * (@subirghosh)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpt/#post-81063)
 * Yes, Ozh, that would be quite tricky. I think i’d rather be patient, than do 
   something overadventurous. LOL
 *  Moderator [Matt Mullenweg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matt/)
 * (@matt)
 * [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpt/#post-81064)
 * In all versions of WP since 1.0 (I believe) if there is no excerpt one is faked
   from the first X words in the post. Is this what you were looking for?
    [http://wiki.wordpress.org/get_the_excerpt](http://wiki.wordpress.org/get_the_excerpt)
   has a “fakeit” argument that specifies whether an excerpt is made up or not if
   one doesn’t exist.

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-excerpt/#post-81064)
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