Ok, some time ago I said I would be posting EE goodies on my site and have had little or not time since to make good that claim. But today I posted a very simple plugin on my site that is basically a replacement for the existing ‘Word Limiter’ plugin.
It truncates text to a specified number of characters without breaking words, removes html tags, appends an optional finishing string (i.e ‘...’) and wraps the whole lot in an html tag of your choosing - if you choose.
I really only made it because I needed it, but it’s here if you want it.