Post excerpts are now automatically generated when you don't provide one manually.
How it works
The algorithm:
Strips all markdown/HTML formatting
Finds the first meaningful paragraph (skips headings)
Takes the first 160 characters
Avoids cutting mid-word or mid-sentence
Where excerpts appear
Post list in the public changelog
RSS feed
<description>fieldEmail notification preview text
Social media cards (Open Graph
description)Widget popup entries
Manual override
You can always set a custom excerpt in the post editor. The auto-generated one is only used as a fallback.
The 160-character limit is optimized for Google search result snippets and social media card previews.