Email Truncation and Read More
By Chris on Thursday, 20 April 2017
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Id particiapted in the beta and commented on email notifications being truncated, when I didn't want them truncated.

Now however, even when there is a read more break inside the article, they are being ingored and still being sent without any truncation.

How I imagine it to work, is if I want to send the entire post as an email, i would put no "Read More" in, and the entire article would be visible. If i want to truncate it, then I would use the "Read More" break, or altenatively create a new block/break called "Email Break" or something.

When using "AUto Truncate" under notifications, there is no formatting and the email comes through with no tables etc, which is not really optimal.

Truncated Email
http://i.imgur.com/LWHDy7Z.png

Regular Email
http://i.imgur.com/rC7Rzw8.jpg
(Note too the "Duplicate Block" message, I can't fix/remove/see that in the edit screen)

I would like it to look like the regular email, and then stop at the break and show a "Read More" or "View Article" or whatever button at that point.

Thanks
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Chris
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Thursday, 20 April 2017 14:15
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Hi Chris,

I am sorry for the delay of this reply.

Regarding the email truncation, this is how it work now in EasyBlog 5.1.2

When 'Truncate Post Content ' enabled in Email notification -> Blogs -> Content Settings, EasyBlog will truncate the content based on the number of characters irregardless if your blog post has readmore tag or not.

When the same setting 'Truncate Post Content' in email notification disabled, EasyBlog will display the full blog content in your email notification.

Meaning to say, in EasyBlog 5.1, the email notification truncation will not respect the 'auto truncation' from layout settings and the email truncation do not work the same as the auto truncation from blog post listing.

To put this simple, for email notification content, it's either you truncate the blog content (based on number of characters) or you dont truncate the blog post content at all.

Hope this help and have a nice day!
Sam
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Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:26
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So there is either
A)

Basic Text truncated at a certain number of characters then [READ MORE]

or
B)

The entire post

?

This doesn't seem like a good option, maybe move this to feature requests, but it seems like it should be an option to display up to the read more tag, and display it nicely (with formatting).

The text only with auto-truncation looks ugly, and i would imagine most would agree.

ALso, I've been puttying numerous things in the "feature request" section, hopefully someone is looking at these.

Thanks
Chris
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Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:38
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Hi Chris,

Thanks for your suggestion.

Ideally for the new blog post email notification, we display a 'snapshot' of the blog content in the email and provide the link for the reader to go to your site and read the full content. By doing so, it will increase the traffic to your blog site

Yeah, you may submit your feature request at here https://stackideas.com/forums/easyblog/feature-requests and we will compile the list from time to time

Thanks again for your feedback and your suggestion.

Have a nice day.
Sam
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Thursday, 20 April 2017 17:55
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Hi Sam, yes thats what I'd like, I'd like the option to choose between all of it (as there is now) and a formatted snapshot (Using a read-more block), since unformatted truncated text does not look good.

Having the email act as it does now, until it reaches a "read more "block and then stopping, would be the perfect solution (or at least an option).
Chris
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Thursday, 20 April 2017 18:09
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Hi Chris,

Thanks again for your suggestion. Do include all your idea into your feature request so that when we come back for the feature lists, we will then consider your suggestions

Thanks.
Sam
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Thursday, 20 April 2017 18:30
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