Automatic excerpt

I’d like to know this too – if anyone responds, would you kindly let me know if you figure it out?
Thanks.

I know that 1 is already implemented in 1.3. Takes the first x amount from your post.

That’s great. But then, Brak, when do we see 1.3? ??

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 …)

Yes, Ozh, that would be quite tricky. I think i’d rather be patient, than do something overadventurous. LOL

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?
https://wiki.www.ads-software.com/get_the_excerpt
has a “fakeit” argument that specifies whether an excerpt is made up or not if one doesn’t exist.