Advanced Excerpt

(April 13th, 2021) = * New - Option to enable adding the "read more link" for custom excerpts as well

(December 28th, 2020) = * New - Multilanguage compatibility for the "read more" text. The shortcode [advanced_excerpt_text] is used. Example [advanced_excerpt_text lang="en_US"]English[/advanced_excerpt_text][advanced_excerpt_text lang="de_DE"]German[/advanced_excerpt_text]

( July 10th, 2020 ) = * New - Option to link the whole excerpt to the single post page * Fix - Issue with "sentence finish" when there is a number with decimal points * Fix - Updated POT file for translations

( June 1st, 2020 ) = * Fix - Issue with undefined index PHP notice

( February 6th, 2020 ) = * Fix - Issue when excerpt ends in a foreign character

( December 17th, 2019 ) = * Fix - Sentence finish option not working properly if . ? or ! are followed by another character such as " for example

( October 5th, 2019 ) = * Fix - Conflict with "WPTouch" plugin * Fix - Conflict with "bbPress" plugin

( September 24th, 2019 ) = * Fix - Conflict with "The Events Calendar" plugin

( June 21st, 2019 ) = * New - Option to disable the functionality for WooCommerce products

( June 14th, 2019 ) = * Fix - Conflict with Sassy Social Share plugin

( May 27th, 2019) = * New - Filter for developers to change the read more text. The filter is advanced_excerpt_read_more_text * Tweak - The read more text option now accept shortcodes

• New - Screen reader text is now optional, can be enabled in the options
• New - Added option to remove the "read more link" if the full post content is shown
• New - Title can be included in the "read more link" by adding {title} to the option

• New - Option to open "read more" in a new tab
• New - Added screen reader text for "read more" link

• New "Finish" option that counts exact characters including blank spaces.

• Fixed the "remove shortcodes from excerpt" functionality

• Compatibility tested for latest version of WordPress ( 4.9.6 )
• Minor tweaks

• Fix: The "Remove all tags except the following" wasn't excluding tags as expected
• Fix: Call remove_all_filter() on the the_excerpt hook to improve excerpt rendering
• Fix: Only honor the "Only filter the_content() when there's no break (<!--more-->) tag in the post content" setting when hooking into the_content filter
• Improvement: Improve backwards compatibility by reverting back to using get_the_content() for the base excerpt text
• Improvement: Added the advanced_excerpt_skip_excerpt_filtering filter allowing users to skip excerpt filtering on a per excerpt basis

• Fix: The the_advanced_excerpt() function was not working on singular page types (pages / posts)

• Fix: Undefined index errors when using the the_advanced_excerpt() function
• Fix: Not excluding tags when using the exclude_tags argument in the the_advanced_excerpt() function

• Feature: Toggle excerpt filtering when there's no break (<!--more-->) tag in the post content
• Feature: Toggle excerpt filtering for the the_excerpt() and the_content() functions
• Feature: Toggle excerpt filtering on certain page types
• Improvement: Added HTML5 tags to the allowed tags list
• Improvement: Options are now automatically removed from wp_options when the plugin is deleted from the dashboard
• Improvement: Added several WordPress filters, allowing developers to extend/modify the default functionality of the plugin
• Improvement: Additional strings were made i18n friendly
• Improvement: All options are now stored in one row in wp_options rather than one row per option
• Improvement: Several UI elements have be reworded and styled differently to improve user experience
• Fix: Now works with themes using the_content() on archive pages (i.e. WordPress default themes and others)
• Fix: Notices/warning were appearing when the options were saved while having a checkbox option unchecked
• Fix: The "Read More" link was being incorrectly appended into certain HTML tags, e.g. table tags and list tags

• 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!

• 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

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

• 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 trimming speed improved
• Fix: Template tag function improved
• Fix: Improved ellipsis placement