read more.. for blogs in _weblog/everyone.php

[Simone Tolotti]

Blog entrys should have a maximum length (character number).
When the content exceed the length , it displays a "Read more..." button/link that points to the blog page.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

On which pages would you like to see this? The main blog page for someone? The page for everyone? RSS feeds?

[Simone Tolotti (simontol)]

I've thought it was clear in the summary. >> "_weblog/everyone.php"
The page for everyone!
It could be implemented in user blogs and rss too.
I've posted a ticked for this on http://elgg.org/trac too.

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Simone Tolotti wrote:
> I've thought it was clear in the summary. >> "_weblog/everyone.php"
> The page for everyone!
> It could be implemented in user blogs and rss too.
>
Apologies. :) I missed that in the title.
> I've posted a ticked for this on http://elgg.org/trac too.
>
Yes, it definitely sounds like something that would be best served
upstream. Thanks for telling me; I've associated the two bugs here.

[Simone Tolotti (simontol)]

I've found that this could be done adding :
{{blogsummary:10}}
in the template homepage, where 10 stands for the number of posts

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

Except that this hasn't worked in our testing; it simply does nothing. And, as far as I know, that doesn't work for the everyone.php page, does it?

[Simone Tolotti (simontol)]

I've added {{blogsummary:10}} in mod/template/templates/Default_Template/frontpage_loggedin , this did the trick.
When users login , they can automatically see the latest posts.
I think everyone.php is not customizable.
Here some other keywords:
http://elgg.org/mod/mediawiki/wiki/index.php/Theme_keywords

[Andrew Conkling (andrewski)]

The blogsummary tag didn't work for me, and yes, it's unavailable on the everyone page. Perhaps the necessary code could be copied into the everyone page (or maybe just ours?).