Title: Critical problem.
Last modified: August 31, 2022

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# Critical problem.

 *  Resolved [dxylott54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dxylott54/)
 * (@dxylott54)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-problem-7/)
 * I am Japanese.
    I am not good at English. Sorry. However, I found a terrible 
   glitch and I am reporting it.
 * Suppose the source of the article is as follows.
 * <p>text A</p>
    <p><!–more–></p> <p>text B<p>
 * (There are two hyphens on either side of “more”. This forum will combine the 
   two hyphens into one hyphen by itself.)
 * If the article “text A” has a small number of characters and the excerpt has 
   a large number of characters set, the WordPress Popular Posts widget will include“
   <! –more–>” is included in the source.
 * [https://www.nichepcgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/more-1.png](https://www.nichepcgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/more-1.png)
 * Depending on the character count setting of the excerpt, the source would look
   like this.
 * [https://www.nichepcgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/more-2.png](https://www.nichepcgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/more-2.png)
 * The HTML tag is not closed due to “<!–“.
    Then the website will be broken as 
   follows.
 * Normal Web site
    [https://www.nichepcgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/n-good.jpg](https://www.nichepcgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/n-good.jpg)
 * Broken Web site
    [https://www.nichepcgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/n-bad.jpg](https://www.nichepcgamer.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/n-bad.jpg)
 * If you did not understand the English I am saying, please let me know.
    I will
   try my best to convey what I am saying.
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by [dxylott54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dxylott54/).
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by [dxylott54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dxylott54/).
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 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-problem-7/#post-15968550)
 * Hi [@dxylott54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dxylott54/),
 * Don’t worry, I understand the problem. Thanks for reporting!
 * For the time being please disable the “Display excerpt” option while I look into
   this. I’ll leave a comment here once I’ve found a fix so you can test it out.
 *  Thread Starter [dxylott54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dxylott54/)
 * (@dxylott54)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-problem-7/#post-15968579)
 * Thank you for your reply!
    And, thank you for telling me how to deal with it!
   🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-problem-7/#post-15976447)
 * Hi [@dxylott54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dxylott54/),
 * I just created a patch to fix this issue and would like your help to verify that
   it works as expected.
 * Please follow these instructions and report back your results:
    1. Download the [development version](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-popular-posts.zip)
       of the plugin.
    2. Go to **Plugins > Add New**, then click on the **Upload Plugin** button.
    3. Select the zip file you just downloaded and click on **Install Now**.
    4. WordPress will detect that the plugin is already installed. Click on “Replace
       current with uploaded”.
    5. When it’s done, enable the “Display excerpt” option again and then check your
       popular posts list.
 *  Thread Starter [dxylott54](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dxylott54/)
 * (@dxylott54)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-problem-7/#post-15976470)
 * I have installed the development version of the plugin.
    The problem was fixed!
   Thank you very much! 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * (@hcabrera)
 * [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-problem-7/#post-15976649)
 * Excellent, that’s good news. I’ll include this patch in the next update which
   should be out soon.
 * Thanks for helping out and for reporting the issue!

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 * Last reply from: [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-problem-7/#post-15976649)
 * Status: resolved