Thanks for the report!
This automated excerpt was introduced in this commit to address a multibyte truncation issue, as reported here:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mobile-theme-read-the-rest-of-the-story-disappearing-at-times-1?replies=6&view=all
Unfortunately, we haven’t found a way to fix the bug while still allowing you to use custom excerpts. We’re aware of the problem though, and you can follow our progress on this here:
https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/2975
I’ll post again here as soon as I have some news about this.
Thanks Jeremy,
As an alternative (compromise) to the fix I would be happy to see an option on the configuration option to choose between automatic and manual excerpts.
Does that make it easier?
Pete
Unfortunately not. We’ll need to find a different way to solve the multibyte truncation issue to solve this issue.
Hi Jeremy,
Is there likely to be any progress on resolving this anytime soon?
Going live shortly and currently have amended the plugin code in content.php to pull in the manual excerpt the_excerpt(); instead of minileven_excerpt;
<div class="entry-content">
<?php if ( '1' == get_option( 'wp_mobile_excerpt' ) && ( is_home() || is_search() || is_archive() ) ) : ?>
<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
<!-- <?php echo minileven_excerpt( 300 ); ?> -->
which is not ideal as will need reapplying after each update
Thanks
Pete
You can follow our progress on this here:
https://github.com/Automattic/jetpack/issues/2975
We unfortunately can’t just switch to using the_excerpt(), as it would reintroduce another bug we fixed earlier, as I mentioned earlier. We’ll need to find another solution, but we haven’t looked at that problem yet, and I don’t have an ETA.
If you have any suggestions as to how we could solve the issue, do not hesitate to comment here or on the GitHub issue!
