Advanced Excerpt plugin not working after upgrading to wordpress 4.3

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Plugin is active and the code generated by the plugin. See website I provided.

Terry

I have been waiting a week for someone to help me with this issue. If there are no answers to the issues with Advanced Excerpt then can you refer me to a better plugin?

I can confirm that the plugin does not work with WP 4.3. I can’t tell why, though. The plugin hasn’t been updated in over a year, so it’s probably incompatible with the recently updated core code.

I can’t find any solution to this elsewhere, either. If anyone knows of a method, please let us know!

The Advanced Excerpt plugin IS working for me now. The issue with my plugins was due to a broken link in the index.php after the webhost updated their version of php.

Advanced Excerpt v4.2.3 is not working properly on our WP 4.3.1 site. Our templates include php the_advanced_excerpt('<snip>&exclude_tags=img,a,iframe,caption'); but captions input with the Media Library caption field and shortcode now show up where before the upgrade they did not — and they are borking my layouts–e.g. <https://aspp.com/chapters/&gt;. Any and all clues would be helpful, TIA !

Yes, if you rely on it to filter the_excerpt, you’re pretty much lost with the plugin since quite a while.

If you’re only after changing the word count and the ellipsis characters, you can throw this into your functions.php:

* Excerpt length */
function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
     return 40
;}

add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

/* Excerpt ellipse */
function new_excerpt_more( $more ) {
     return '…';
}

add_filter('excerpt_more', 'new_excerpt_more');