Advanced Excerpt

4.4.1 (January 19th, 2024)

• Fix – PHP 8 issue with “creation of dynamic property” being deprecated

4.4.0 (February 1st, 2023 )

• New – Option to generate an excerpt from the manually created excerpt (instead of showing full manual excerpt)

4.3.9 (April 13th, 2021)

• New – Option to enable adding the “read more link” for custom excerpts as well

4.3.8 (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]

4.3.7 ( 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

4.3.6 ( June 1st, 2020 )

• Fix – Issue with undefined index PHP notice

4.3.5 ( February 6th, 2020 )

• Fix – Issue when excerpt ends in a foreign character

4.3.4 ( December 17th, 2019 )

• Fix – Sentence finish option not working properly if . ? or ! are followed by another character such as ” for example

4.3.3 ( October 5th, 2019 )

• Fix – Conflict with “WPTouch” plugin
• Fix – Conflict with “bbPress” plugin

4.3.2 ( September 24th, 2019 )

• Fix – Conflict with “The Events Calendar” plugin

4.3.1 ( June 21st, 2019 )

• New – Option to disable the functionality for WooCommerce products

4.3.0 ( June 14th, 2019 )

• Fix – Conflict with Sassy Social Share plugin

4.2.9 ( 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

4.2.8

• 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

4.2.7

• New – Option to open “read more” in a new tab
• New – Added screen reader text for “read more” link

4.2.6

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

4.2.5

• Fixed the “remove shortcodes from excerpt” functionality

4.2.4

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

4.2.3

• 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

4.2.2

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

4.2.1

• 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

4.2

• 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

4.1

• 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!

4.0

• 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

3.1

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

3.0

• First 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 excerpt speed improved
• Fix: Template tag function improved
• Fix: Better ellipsis placement