Update 0.4d!

Much needed improvements in the way excerpts were handled headline the latest update. I have added the ability to set a character limit for the excerpt to be used for this widget. The great thing about this is that designers can make sure an excerpt fits within the right dimensions, as cutting an excerpt off by words is clumsy. Another benefit is that you can vary the excerpt length as this plugin uses a custom field to store the excerpt (although it can display the regular excerpt field as well).

Another area I concentrated on was getting the plugin to work well with the magnificent Front-End editor. The front-end editor makes it even easier to manage the widgets. Having said that, you can control some of the widget’s display from the edit post/page screen as well.

A helpful addition is that my plugin adds the post or page id into the columns on the ‘manage pages’ and ‘manage posts’ screen. That way it is much easier to quickly identify the id needed for the widget.

What I’m going to concentrate on next is putting up more documentation and example uses.

There was a lot of code added so some small bugs might have crept in, even after testing. Version 0.5 shouldn’t be far of to take care of any issues users are having. If you find any bugs, or have feature suggestions, let me know.