Well, I just program what I personally enjoy and what seems meaningful and interesting to me - totally independent of contributions or donations ... whatever. :)

Is there a contribution I can make to get this plugin?

@~Z~ Man ... very nice HUGE improvement. Much more in line with what people are used to. Have a "tip-jar", or "coffee/beer fund" somewhere? Would be happy to contribute to it!

~Z~ Man very well done works for me nice

Thanks for your feedback, guys.

Readmore 7.0 will preserve embedded media by default now, but it's up to you to switch this setting - aside from several other ones - from your admin backend.

Was going to bring it up before... I concur that having any media in the post remain visible is a necessity. It is the reason I am not using this component at the moment.

Agree with Jambu, would really be great if media could stay visible.

You can try to replace all three instances of post-contents in js/readmore.php by post-contents p
But the result isn't 100% satisfying because only images are kept outside the <p>, while embedded videos and LinkPreviews are kept inside.
Thus it would need a completely different underlying library with a smart text recognition to separate media from text.

Is there anyway to make this only apply to the text and not images?

He friends,
as promised, a translatable release is available now.
Enjoy!