Fixing the_excerpt
Over on Spamtacular, I've had some problems with are based around my somewhat heavy use of Academic Press (a plugin that I use for creating citations and the bibliography you'll find at the bottom of many posts). My problem is that Wordpress doesn't parse shortcodes when putting together the excerpts that are displayed on the homepage. So, my excerpts were reading very strangely. For instance, the excerpt for the current first post on...