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Figured it out. For some reason, when I pasted the shortcode into the visual editor, it was being wrapped in code tags. Probably because the shortcode is wrapped in code tags on Bill’s website. (Indeed, this is the reason)

Anyway, I couldn’t see the code tags in the visual editor, but I noticed that the shortcode was in a monospaced font, even though I had the paragraph style selected in the dropdown. I simply switched from visual to text mode, deleted the rogue code tags that I found, and all was well.

Hi Bill! Thanks for the quick reply. I’m afraid you’ve misunderstood what I’m looking for.

When creating a new post, one of the buttons on the toolbar is labeled “Insert Read More tag” which allows the author to choose exactly where to truncate their excerpt.

As far as I can tell your plugin currently ignores this tag and truncates the excerpt at the default character limit that you’ve set. For example:

https://i.imgur.com/cyIB98o.png

In the above image, your plugin would currently display both sentences in the excerpt.

I’m perfectly happy with the behavior of appending “[…]” to a truncated excerpt, but I’d like to change where that truncation occurs on the fly on a post by post basis.

I take that back… It doesn’t seem to support the “Read More” tag that should truncate the excerpt displayed.

Great! Thanks for the update.