Show first few characters of each blog
By Diane on Thursday, 15 September 2016
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I have a blog which is displayed using the (Posts) Frontpage menu item. Is there any way to have this page show a list of my blog posts with only the first 200 characters or so instead of the entire blog post?

I do not want to use the read more feature, because when this is used, the text before the read more break does not get included when viewing the entire blog post.

I see in the Settings - Layout - Listings area that there is a setting for Show Post Content (which is set to yes) and Maximum Content (Characters) but changing these settings doesn't seem to affect anything.

Thank you.
Hi Diane,
The Show Post Content under Listings that you mentioned is actually for the featured posts.

To achieve your objective, you have to head to Settings>Layout>Truncation to truncate your blog posts.
The left column(Composer Posts) are for posts created using the EasyBlog built-in composer. The right column(Normal Posts) are truncation settings for posts created using other Joomla editors.
Hope this helps.
Raymond
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Thursday, 15 September 2016 11:42
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Wonderful, thank you!
Diane
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Thursday, 15 September 2016 21:19
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Hey Diane,

You are most welcome. Glad to hear that your issue has been resolved now.

As a gentle reminder, kindly start a new thread if you have any other issue in the future so it will be easier for us to manage your inquiry. I will lock and mark this thread as resolved.
Raymond
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Thursday, 15 September 2016 22:51
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