Easyblog 5 truncation strips paragraph returns
By Tony Young on Friday, 04 September 2015
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I am starting on a new site build and will have an intro to the latest blog on the home page. Using the latest version of EasyBlog5 I have the home menu button linked to the front page option.

I am using the EB5 composer and have truncation set to 800 characters. In the truncated view on the home page all the paragraph returns are stripped out. But when clicking continue reading to go to the full blog, the returns are there.

Am I missing a setting somewhere or is this a bug?
hey Tony,

Check my screenshot below, do you mean you set the truncation 800 character from the composer truncation layout?

By the way, can you provide us with your Joomla backend and FTP access so we can help you check on this?
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 04 September 2015 12:30
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Yes, that is where I changed the truncation. Site details updated.
Tony Young
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Friday, 04 September 2015 12:51
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Hey Tony,

I am sorry that confusing in earlier, actually that was correct behaviour when you turn one the `Automated Truncation` option from backend.

it will not display exactly content paragraph as what you view on the blog entry page.
Arlex Wong
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Friday, 04 September 2015 13:01
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Is there any kind of fix or work around for this? Obviously an author is not going to want their writing improperly formatted even in a preview of the post.

If not, I have wasted my money on it and will have to try a k2 solution.
Tony Young
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Friday, 04 September 2015 21:04
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Hey Tony,

The only proper way to truncate a content requires the following logic:

1. Strip off html codes
2. Truncate contents by x amount of characters.

The only way to have extremely accurate truncation is to use the "Read more" block. This will tell EasyBlog to not perform any truncation and it will respect the read more settings exactly as where you want it to be
Mark
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Saturday, 05 September 2015 01:46
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Ok. Inserting a block is only giving me certain spots around the top and bottom. Is there a way to insert code anywhere I want in the text to creat the read more link?
Tony Young
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Saturday, 05 September 2015 05:54
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Unfortunately that is not possible currently and if you really need to separate the intro and the full text, you should compose your blog post by creating separate text blocks

[Text block - This should appear on the intro]
[Readmore block]
[Text block - Whatever contents you want to display]
Mark
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Saturday, 05 September 2015 16:06
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