Thank you for your reply, Catalin. I would appreciate it if TagDiv would incorporate this functionality in a future update if possible, but for now I will change out all of my custom excerpts to be closer to the length they were before.

I am also having issues enabling Visual Composer. When I click “Activate” from the plugin page, it says that the plugin “could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.”

Warning: require_once(/home/********/**************.net/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/include/helpers/helpers_factory.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/********/**************.net/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/js_composer.php on line 171

Line 171 of the js_composer.php file says:
require_once $this->path( 'HELPERS_DIR', 'helpers_factory.php' );