Is anyone here using Excerpt Editor plugin? I've got the latest version but it seems like when you set a page or post to draft, the excerpt is deleted. Anyway to change that so the excerpt remains so when you reset the page to published, said excerpt is already in place?
I think the answer is to use an different excerpt plugin that works for pages and that doesn't delete or not display the excerpt if you edit or set the page status to draft.
This one seems to work and puts the excerpt field on the manage/write Page admin screen.
pjw_page_excerpt
For anyone interested, you can find it here:
http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/page-excerpt/