The two complains I’ve heard that I can not re-produce is:

1. Post Teaser skipping post. Most of the posts are teased but a few is not and it does not look like the post itself is malformed.
2. Post Teaser caused sidebar to disappear. When ever Post Teaser is enabled, the sidebar is gone.

For problem #1, my investigation always starts at checking the post to see if the cause for Post Teaser to skip certain post is the way those posts are written. To be brief, the two common type of post that cause Post Teaser to skip post are to write a long post in one paragraph and to use <br /> in place of <p>…</p> tag pair for paragraph break. I’ve eliminate both the cause in the recent reports. However, I’ve not been able to find anything else that may cause the problem.

For problem #2, this is the first time I’ve heard of this problem. After testing that Post Teaser does in fact works with WordPress 2.3.2, I have one suspicion, which is widgets. I’ve tested that quite extensively as well and still I can not find what is causing some blogs to crash their sidebar.

For those who have one or both of the above problem and is willing to spend time to help me determine what is the real cause of those problems, please drop me a note here: http://sandboxblogger.com/contact/

What’s new in 3.10

• Post Teaser now in Greek. Many thanks to Alexander for the translation.
• Added a FAQ entry. I have had quite a few queries about why Post Teaser failed to split some/all of the post. I’d figure that need to be addressed in the FAQ.

For users that is waiting for a fix or feature enhancement, I’m sorry but none made it to this release due to me busy schedule of late. I’ll still try to get one release out by the end of the year and hopefully be able to fix some issue at that release.

So be warned. For non-Greek speaking folks, there is little point in upgrading to 3.10. In fact, there is no point upgrading even for Greek speaking folks. Just grab the translate file form the repos and follow “Is this plugin available in other languages? in the FAQ. It will work just fine with 3.9. The only reason for the version bump is due to how WordPress Plgins directory is organized (details too boring to include here).

If you want to upgrade for the sake of a higher version number, here is where you get the latest Post Teaser.

After much debugging and sleepless nights, I’ve got to fix the Post Teaser plugin. Although if I’m an experienced PHP programmer, I would have manage the fix in a matter of hours but I’m still learning. I still can’t program PHP if my life depends on it (at least not in a timely fashion). Regardless I’ve fix the issue and I’m now happy with the result.

Now, the difficult part. I have had a chat with Jonathan Leighton, the original developer for the Post Teaser plugin and he is not maintaining the plugin anymore. On top of that, he has also lost access to the official Post Teaser wiki page at WordPress Plugin Repository. So, I bite the bullet and ask to take over maintaining Post Teaser. Hurray! He agrees. However, there is still one issue to resolve. That is the access to the WordPress Plugin wiki. I’ll need to work it out later but for now (in order not to keep everyone waiting), I’ve hosted it on SandBoxBlogger.com at the Post Teaser plugin page.

Please feel free to download and use it as you would on the WordPress Plugin Repository. Post Teaser is not my puppy. Hurray!

PS: If anyone knows how to get into contact with the WordPress Plugin Repository admin, please help pass along the word that I have taken over the development of Post Teaser. I need the access if I am to continue working on this plugin.