Lead Developer
I don’t believe it’s possible unfortunately without writing your own excerpt function and replacing the core one.
The purpose of the Excerpt metabox and the read more tag is to break outside of the automatic excerpt length, which can be super helpful if you don’t want the automatic cutoff.
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