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Advanced Excerpt · Version history

Advanced Excerpt changelog and version history

Latest version
4.5
Aug 1, 2026 (3 months ago)
Releases
29
since 2010
In the last year
1
Tested up to
WordPress 7.0.8
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20103 releases
  • 20113 releases
  • 20143 releases
  • 20161 release
  • 20182 releases
  • 20199 releases
  • 20203 releases
  • 20212 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20241 release
  • 20261 release

20261 release

  1. Advanced Excerpt 4.5Latest

    • Fix – Security issue (credit to Mustafa Ahmed)
    • Tweak – WordPress 7.0 compatibility

20241 release

  1. Advanced Excerpt 4.4.1

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

20231 release

  1. Advanced Excerpt 4.4.0

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

20212 releases

  1. Advanced Excerpt 4.3.9

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

  2. Advanced Excerpt 4.3.8

    • 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]

20203 releases

  1. Advanced Excerpt 4.3.7

    • 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

  2. Advanced Excerpt 4.3.6

    • Fix – Issue with undefined index PHP notice

  3. Advanced Excerpt 4.3.5

    • Fix – Issue when excerpt ends in a foreign character

20199 releases

  1. Advanced Excerpt 4.3.4

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

  2. Advanced Excerpt 4.3.3

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

  3. Advanced Excerpt 4.3.2

    • Fix – Conflict with “The Events Calendar” plugin

  4. Advanced Excerpt 4.3.1

    • New – Option to disable the functionality for WooCommerce products

  5. Advanced Excerpt 4.3.0

    • Fix – Conflict with Sassy Social Share plugin

  6. Advanced Excerpt 4.2.9

    • 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

  7. Advanced Excerpt 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

  8. Advanced Excerpt 4.2.7

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

  9. Advanced Excerpt 4.2.6

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

20182 releases

  1. Advanced Excerpt 4.2.5

    • Fixed the “remove shortcodes from excerpt” functionality

  2. Advanced Excerpt 4.2.4

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

20161 release

  1. Advanced Excerpt 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

20143 releases

  1. Advanced Excerpt 4.2.2

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

  2. Advanced Excerpt 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

  3. Advanced Excerpt 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

20113 releases

  1. Advanced Excerpt 4.1.1

  2. Advanced Excerpt 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!

  3. Advanced Excerpt 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

20103 releases

  1. Advanced Excerpt 3.1

  2. Advanced Excerpt 3.0

  3. Advanced Excerpt 0.2.2

Questions about Advanced Excerpt’s releases

What is the latest version of Advanced Excerpt?

4.5, released on Aug 1, 2026 (3 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.0.8 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Advanced Excerpt updated?

One release in the last year. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from January 2010.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Advanced Excerpt’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.