Tne excerpt is trimmed not the the exact number of characters. That would cut off a word. So the excerpt is trimmed to the last whole word before the cutted word.
Please show an example of your posts.
Also at http://www.singaporefishing.org/blog/
The 4th widget down at the 4th recent post.
Thanks for all these fast replies btw!
If you open that post you’ll see that because of the image, the excerpt length appears much shorter.
Strange. I can not reconstruct it on my server. Maybe a function in your theme or of a plugin does shorten the excerpt to the first image before my plugin uses it?
You can try this: To display a longer excerpt for a post, simply write one in the Excerpt field under the post edit box.
Note: As of WordPress version 3.1, some screen options on the Post & Page edit Administration Panels are hidden by default. The Excerpt field is hidden by default if it has not been used before.
I manually added an excerpt to the post but the excerpt shown in the plugin doesn’t appear to use it.
Sorry, I can not help you further. The plugin uses WordPress core functions to get the excerpt. strip_tags() is involved, as well as the check of a given excerpt in the excerpt box and to use it if available. The reasons of your site’s excerpts are not in the plugin. I assume again other functions messing that up.
