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Advanced Excerpt

Several improvements over WP's default excerpt. The size can be limited using character or word count, and HTML markup is not removed.

4.1

  • Fix: Template function with custom options works again
  • Fix: Data before header bug (retro-fixed in 4.0)
  • Feature: Template function also works with array-style parameters
  • Removed multibyte support
  • Removed PHP 4 support (WP 3.2+ users should be fine, others should update)
  • Better code testing before release!

4.0

  • Feature: Brand new parsing algorithm which should resolve some running time issues
  • Feature: Options to finish a word or sentence before cutting the excerpt
  • Fix: A few small bugs

3.1

  • Fix: A few bugs with custom and character-based excerpts

3.0

  • First major release since 0.2.2 (also removed the 0. prefix from the version number)
  • Feature: Shortcodes can be removed from the excerpt
  • Feature: Virtually any HTML tag may now be stripped
  • Feature: A read-more link with custom text can be added
  • Fix: Word-based excerpt speed improved
  • Fix: Template tag function improved
  • Fix: Better ellipsis placement

Requires: 3.2 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.3.2
Last Updated: 2011-12-14
Downloads: 148,302

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(115 ratings)

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