• But it actually did 110%. Bravo, plugin developer. This is the standard that other plugins should be held to.

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  • Thread Starter dp557

    (@dp557)

    I take that back… It doesn’t seem to support the “Read More” tag that should truncate the excerpt displayed.

    Plugin Author Bill Erickson

    (@billerickson)

    The plugin uses the standard the_excerpt() function in WordPress. This function outputs a […] at the end of excerpts, not a Read More link.

    You can customize this though. In your theme’s functions.php file, do something like this: https://gist.github.com/billerickson/f09f4caf6af43dae79d1

    More information: http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Filter_Reference/excerpt_more

    Thread Starter dp557

    (@dp557)

    Hi Bill! Thanks for the quick reply. I’m afraid you’ve misunderstood what I’m looking for.

    When creating a new post, one of the buttons on the toolbar is labeled “Insert Read More tag” which allows the author to choose exactly where to truncate their excerpt.

    As far as I can tell your plugin currently ignores this tag and truncates the excerpt at the default character limit that you’ve set. For example:

    http://i.imgur.com/cyIB98o.png

    In the above image, your plugin would currently display both sentences in the excerpt.

    I’m perfectly happy with the behavior of appending “[…]” to a truncated excerpt, but I’d like to change where that truncation occurs on the fly on a post by post basis.

    Plugin Author Bill Erickson

    (@billerickson)

    Try this: [display_posts include_excerpt=”false” include_content=”true”]

    The Read More link only applies if you’re displaying the full post content and are not on a single post.

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