What the title says. There’s no indication in the excerpt panel that the excerpt is required. THe plugin does, however, disable the “publish” button.

How to make Mandatory Excerpts for WordPress to work with Woocommerce to make excerpt (product short description) mandatory?

I tried this without success
$valid_post_types = apply_filters( ‘mandatory_excerpt_post_types’, array( ‘post’, ‘product’ ) );

Thanks

This is to anyone who is looking for a help on how to apply filters described in this documentation which I found super confusing.
In order to apply mandatory excerpt to only certain post type you’ll need to add a filter code in your child theme’s function.php, e.g. to require excerpt only in post type:

function require_excerpt_only_in_posts() {
	return ['post'];
}
add_filter( 'mandatory_excerpt_post_types', 'require_excerpt_only_in_posts');

Hi, pardon my inexperience with the filters, but I’m not entirely sure what to un-comment/format in the examples you show.

We have a custom post type called “Articles” that have excerpts I want to make mandatory. I just need a little more guidance on setting up the function.

Also, does this go back and unpublish already published articles if they don’t have an excerpt? I’m asking because that would unpublish a majority of articles. I’m looking to require excerpts moving forward.

Thank you!