[wp-hackers] the_excerpt filters

[Bernard D. Tremblay (ben)]

*Haven't checked if this exists"

Slug creates a text string from Title, yes?

Could there be a function that, when enabled, automatically produced a 
text block "excerpt" from the post contents?
I imagine it having a configurable length, so that, say, the first 24 
words were selected and displayed as an excerpt, followed by something 
like "[...] --more--"
And perhaps, like slug, that text block would be accessible for editing.

bdt

Alakhnor wrote:
>> From: Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com>
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] the_excerpt filters
>> wp_trim_excerpt creates an excerpt from the content, but only if
>> there's not a manually defined excerpt [...]
>>
>>