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If you want to fix this yourself, here is a solution.

This will be fixed in a future update (probably very soon).

The plugin should function despite this error. The easiest thing you can do is turning off (or lowering) error reporting in PHP. Also make sure that WordPress is not in debug mode.

I will fix this bug in a future update.

If it’s urgent you can go back to the previous version. This will be fixed in the meantime while I think of a good way to test my code from now on…

The space at the beginning is indeed the problem. I don’t know how I missed that.

You can fix it yourself using Plugins -> Editor to remove the spaces in front of <?php. It is not necessary to put ?> at the end of the file, though.

I updated the download now. So upgrading or downloading the plugin again should also work.

You have to modify your theme. You can use the template tag provided by the plugin to show the excerpt just the way you want it.
It is not practically possible to temporarily disable the plugin and revert to the default excerpt behaviour, but the parameters can be adjusted to mimic it.

I will not implement end-user features (i.e. more settings) to turn the plugin on and off in specific situations. This would end up cluttering the plugin as more similar features will be requested. Such features are best left to the theme developer.

Your current solution is mostly legit. You can keep the “read more” text and use CSS image replacement (text-indent: -999px;) to hide it. This way, screen readers that can’t interpret images can still read the text, which makes your website more accessible.

An update is out now. This problem (among others) has been fixed.

You can choose whether the read-more link should be added in the Settings -> Excerpt page in the Administration area. You can also customize the text here.

The appended link has class="read_more", so you can control its appearance using CSS.

The link is place directly after the ellipsis character(s), if possible at the end of the final paragraph. At the moment, there is no way to change this without altering the code.

The upcoming version of Advanced Excerpt will strip shortcodes, removing both the gallery and the problem from the equation.

The upcoming version of Advanced Excerpt will strip shortcodes from the post prior to generating an excerpt.

The ability to selectively strip shortcodes might be added in a future version, if I can find a reliable solution that is. I also don’t want to clutter the plugin with confusing features, so this is still under consideration.

Adding a link is not yet possible with this plugin, but I will add this feature.

The ellipsis issue is kind of a problem. In most cases we want it outside of the HTML markup, but there is at least one occassion in which the ellipsis should be inside the markup: when the last tag is a paragraph (p). Otherwise the ellipsis is placed on the next line.

I’m currently looking for a solution, though.

The Shortcode API is new since WP 2.5, this plugin has been lagging behind in compatibility since version 2.3 or so.

I will implement a solution in the next update (which is work-in-progress when time allows it).

What is your preferred way of dealing with the shortcode? I can think of the following options: removing it, expanding it then proceed normally (althoug I assume this is how the plugin currently behaves), leave them unparsed (I don’t see a practical reason for this though), or letting the user define shortcodes to expand/remove.

The plugin already attempts to correct unclosed tags. It says so in the description, please read it.

If this feature is broken, please describe the situation that caused it to fail.

Thanks for the heads-up. I don’t know why I forgot to include that line in the code, because it’s actually a crucial part of that rather simple function.
The fix will be included in an update which I hope will be completed soon.

Sorry for the late reply, by the way.

I have no idea why this is happening, unfortunately. The plugin code is pretty straightforward as far as overriding settings goes (it actually uses the exact same method of overriding default settings as any WP template tag does).

Have you tried re-applying the Excerpt settings and/or re-installing the plugin?