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[QBFreak]

Hi, I have recently installed this plugin and am adjusting it to my needs now. I have a problem with length of excerpts. I inserted 350 in the field Length of excerpt (characters): in the front-end interface and initially, I imagined that posts shorter than 350 characters would be displayed full and longer posts will display just the first 350 characters. But shorter posts are displayed without the last word every time (even posts containing only two short words display only the first one and the second one is omitted, posts with three words display only first two words and so on) and longer posts (over 350 characters) are terminated somewhere before the 350th character (a different number in every post, in a range from 204 to 345 characters in my few tests (345 seems to be maximum)). Is there any way to fix this?

Thank you for your advices.

I started to dig into this (shortly after your last post), but I haven't had the time to hack at it and come up with something better. I did discover the reason the excerpts always seem shorter than the maximum. It is because when it counts characters to determine the excerpt length, it counts the HTML formatting as well as the plain text of the content. IMO this should be changed to ignore all markup. It's something I want to look into if I get some free time. Or maybe the dev will stop by and roll up our changes and a fix for excerpts into a new version. One can only hope