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Cuidiu
Excerpts For XPress Index Page

  • 2007/7/8 7:34

  • Cuidiu

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  • Since: 2006/4/23


I'm trying to get the latest Wordpress module (XOOPS 2.0.16 site) to only show excerpts of the posts on the modules/wordpress/index.php page rather than full text. There is an option in the module preferences:
Show excerpt Yes/No
Display excerpt instead of full article on index page

I've set it to Yes but it still shows the full text of articles. Am I missing something or is there a way to manually change this since the setting doesn't seem to be taking?

Thanks in advance.
[size=x-small]Working sites:
XOOPS 2.0.16 PHP 5.2.2, MySQL 5.0.24a-standard-log, Apache/2.0.54 (Unix)
XOOPS 2.2.4, PHP 4.3.10, MySQL 3.23.58, Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)[/size]
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Northern
Re: Excerpts For XPress Index Page

  • 2007/7/8 9:01

  • Northern

  • Just can't stay away

  • Posts: 420

  • Since: 2004/12/26


I have yet to play with this, but I do have it installed on a testing site.
LOL
I know sad, but true

Im sure some one can help you out on Xoops Forge to solve this problem.

If not another member here.
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Cuidiu
Re: Excerpts For XPress Index Page

  • 2007/7/9 0:38

  • Cuidiu

  • Quite a regular

  • Posts: 358

  • Since: 2006/4/23


Hi Northern,
Thanks but there's not much going on over there as far as support goes.

I've spent hours looking over this and though it looks like the function is there, I can't get it to work. I can truncate the blog posts but can't take it further (no idea how) and it appears that the XOOPS template (wp_index.html) is the same for the blog's index page AND individual posts. So whatever I'm truncating appears on the individual post pages as well. Kind of defeats the purpose of having only a brief paragraph of each blog post on the blog's index page with a link to the full post.

I've even tried two Wordpress excerpt plugins and they are not working because either I'm not adding to the XOOPS template properly or they don't work because I'm using the XOOPS template.

So, unless someone can confirm otherwise, I must assume it cannot be done and now another day has been lost.

Fun...fun...fun!
[size=x-small]Working sites:
XOOPS 2.0.16 PHP 5.2.2, MySQL 5.0.24a-standard-log, Apache/2.0.54 (Unix)
XOOPS 2.2.4, PHP 4.3.10, MySQL 3.23.58, Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)[/size]
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lintu
Re: Excerpts For XPress Index Page

  • 2007/7/17 1:19

  • lintu

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 103

  • Since: 2005/9/18


I have been trying to do the same thing in the last couple of days, but haven't found a solution yet. But it can be done as I saw it on http://xoopsfactory.com/blog/

Do let us know here if you find a solution and I'll do the same. Thanks.
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snow77
Re: Excerpts For XPress Index Page

  • 2007/7/17 2:10

  • snow77

  • Just can't stay away

  • Posts: 864

  • Since: 2003/7/23


On code view in the wp text area the code "more" is not working?
Excerpt / intro text here  the rest of the text here
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Cuidiu
Re: Excerpts For XPress Index Page

  • 2007/7/17 2:13

  • Cuidiu

  • Quite a regular

  • Posts: 358

  • Since: 2006/4/23


Hi lintu,

Do as snow77 says. He saved the day for me in this post.

Good luck!
[size=x-small]Working sites:
XOOPS 2.0.16 PHP 5.2.2, MySQL 5.0.24a-standard-log, Apache/2.0.54 (Unix)
XOOPS 2.2.4, PHP 4.3.10, MySQL 3.23.58, Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)[/size]
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lintu
Re: Excerpts For XPress Index Page

  • 2007/7/17 2:51

  • lintu

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 103

  • Since: 2005/9/18


Thank you for the replies. The 'more' tag on the Wordpress blog post does work. But in my site the blogs are written by multiple members, and I wanted to configure it so by default, after so many words the 'more' tag kicked in without the manual effort of the memebers (not sure if they will know how to do it). There are several Wordpress plugin that do it, but unfortunately they don't work on the XOOPS version of Wordpress.
JigJak.com - A social Bookmarking & Blogging site.

ProjectMgr.net - Online Project Management Software

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