Thanks for your reply. If I have time, I’ll have a look during my summer vacation. But I certainly don’t have your experience and would really appreciate your improvement on the plugin.
Thanks to your explanation, I now understand the need to strip HTML from excerpts. Maybe a first step in improving the plugin would be to handle the featured posts differently than the teasers.
Anyway, thanks for your time, for this plugin and for all your contributions to my continuous learning of WordPress and Genesis.