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Advanced Excerpt + PHP 4 problem (solved)

Immediately after the release of version 0.2.1, I was made aware of a huge problem. The plugin fails to work on PHP 4, causing a fatal error.

A quick update has been released that fixes this. The new safe release is now 0.2.2, which should be available from the WordPress plugin repository shortly.…

Advanced Excerpt 0.2.1 released

The previous version of the Advanced Excerpt plugin has lasted a long time, but its increasing popularity and several feature requests have finally resulted in a new version.

What new features are included?

Well, most importantly, multi-byte character support. The plugin has received a lot of attention on the Asian side of the world (judging from the pingbacks), but unfortunately it fails with Chinese, Japanese and a whole host of other character sets.…