diff --git a/wp-content/plugins/autopost-to-mastodon/mastodon_autopost.php b/wp-content/plugins/autopost-to-mastodon/mastodon_autopost.php
index ec7e084e2f17c6eb9f816fd4dc2281cfbd7826fa..ab19ae961e4cc7955db65ab435bd5e28dfa90410 100644
--- a/wp-content/plugins/autopost-to-mastodon/mastodon_autopost.php
+++ b/wp-content/plugins/autopost-to-mastodon/mastodon_autopost.php
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  * Plugin Name: Mastodon Autopost
  * Plugin URI: https://github.com/simonfrey/mastodon_wordpress_autopost
  * Description: A Wordpress Plugin that automatically posts your new articles to Mastodon
- * Version: 3.3.2
+ * Version: 3.4
  * Author: L1am0
  * Author URI: http://www.simon-frey.eu
  * License: GPL2
@@ -116,16 +116,6 @@ class autopostToMastodon
             wp_enqueue_script('settings_page', $plugin_url . 'js/settings_page.js', array('jquery'), $infos['Version'], true);
 
         }
-        if (in_array($pagenow, ['post-new.php', 'post.php'])) {
-            $plugin_url = plugin_dir_url(__FILE__);
-            wp_enqueue_script('toot_editor', $plugin_url . 'js/toot_editor.js', array('jquery'), $infos['Version'], true);
-
-            $title_nonce = wp_create_nonce('mastodonNonce');
-            wp_localize_script('toot_editor', 'ajax_obj', array(
-                'ajax_url' => admin_url('admin-ajax.php'),
-                'nonce' => $title_nonce,
-            ));
-        }
     }
 
     /**
@@ -140,7 +130,7 @@ class autopostToMastodon
         add_options_page(
             'Mastodon Autopost',
             'Mastodon Autopost',
-            'install_plugins',
+            'manage_options',
             'autopost-to-mastodon',
             array($this, 'show_configuration_page')
         );
@@ -496,28 +486,30 @@ class autopostToMastodon
         }
 
         //Replace excerpt
-        $post_content_long = $post->post_content;
-        if ($wp_version[0] == "5"){
+        //Replace with the excerpt of the post
+        $post_optional_excerpt = $post->post_excerpt;
+        if (strlen($post_optional_excerpt) > 0) {
+            $post_content_long = $post_optional_excerpt;
+        } else {
+            $post_content_long = $post->post_content;
+        }
+        if ($wp_version[0] == "5") {
             $post_content_long = excerpt_remove_blocks($post_content_long);
         }
-        $post_content_long = wp_strip_all_tags($post_content_long);
         $post_content_long = strip_shortcodes($post_content_long);
-        $post_content_long = strip_tags($post_content_long);
         $post_content_long = html_entity_decode($post_content_long, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
+        $post_content_long = wp_strip_all_tags($post_content_long);
         //$post_content_long = str_replace("...", "",$post_content_long);
 
         $excerpt_len = $toot_size - strlen($message_template) + 9 - 5;
 
-        //Replace with the excerpt of the post
-        $post_optional_excerpt = get_the_excerpt($id);
-        if (strlen($post_optional_excerpt)>0){
-            $post_content_long = $post_optional_excerpt;
-        }
-        $post_excerpt = substr($post_content_long, 0, $excerpt_len);
+        mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
+      
+        $post_excerpt = mb_substr($post_content_long, 0, $excerpt_len);
 
         $message_template = str_replace("[excerpt]", $post_excerpt, $message_template);
 
-        return substr($message_template, 0, $toot_size);
+        return mb_substr($message_template, 0, $toot_size);
     }
 
     private function sendTestToot()
diff --git a/wp-content/plugins/autopost-to-mastodon/readme.txt b/wp-content/plugins/autopost-to-mastodon/readme.txt
index 4f8ea5b93ccf2c822dab8843492b9eb9c35af387..87c13046c5e80ac0c80d208e0d24f71d45d56a30 100644
--- a/wp-content/plugins/autopost-to-mastodon/readme.txt
+++ b/wp-content/plugins/autopost-to-mastodon/readme.txt
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Contributors: l1am0, Hellexis
 Tags: mastodon, Mastodon, Mastdon Autopost, federated web, GNU social, statusnet, social web, social media, auto post
 Requires at least: 4.6
-Tested up to: 5.0
-Stable tag: 3.3.2
+Tested up to: 5.2.1
+Stable tag: 3.4
 License: GPLv2
 Donate link: https://patreon.com/simonfrey
 License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
@@ -46,6 +46,16 @@ The plugin never transmits any data to me, or anyone else than the mastodon node
 
 == Changelog ==
 
+= 3.4 =
+* Fix for the manual added excerpt to also get encoded and remove html tags
+
+= 3.3.4 =
+* Remove toot editor javascript as we do not have a toot editor anymore
+
+= 3.3.3 =
+* Change permission for settings pages
+* Update for HTML tags striping
+
 = 3.3.2 =
 * Remove HTML tags from excerpt (with php strip_tags())