For most of the posts on my Wordpress site, I leave the manual excerpt box empty & let Wordpress generate the excerpt based on the content of my post. Until now, this has been working fine — I get the first 80 words of the post as I would expect based on my settings.
For my most recent post, however, no excerpt shows up with the title of the post on the homepage of my blog. This post itself is quite long with lots of text and images, and the first block in the post is a paragraph with text that is much longer than 80 words.
I'm using Wordpress 5.7.2. I deactivated all my plugins & switched to a Wordpress-provided default theme to make sure no rogue code is getting involved, but still the problem persists.