Latest Blogs Module - "Original link" not always a clickable link
By Rik Brown on Wednesday, 01 February 2017
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We are having a problem with the "Original link" being displayed as a clickable link by the Latest Blogs Module.

The module is supposed to place an "Original link" link for RSS feeds displayed by the module. However, it often shows the words "Original link" but it is not truly an active link and so one cannot click their cursor on it.

There is no problem if I go to our blog page from where the RSS feed comes to the module. On the original feed page the "Original link" link always displays properly. So it is just a problem in the module.

I'll attach a sample image and you can hopefully see a live example (always changing) on our main community page.

Thanks. -- Rik
Hello Rik,

The issue here is because of the truncation. When automatic truncation occurs, the module needs to strip off html codes. The best way to fix this is to edit the post and add a read more line after the original link. This way, it enforces EasyBlog to always render the portion of text before the read more link in the module.
Mark
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Wednesday, 01 February 2017 12:14
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I assume that you mean to enable the "Show Read More" option under the Post Attributes tab of the module?

However, if I do that, then the user is just taken to another page on our website instead where they must then click on the "Original link" there. That is such a waste of time (essentially doing the same thing twice) to actually get to the original link on some other website.

Shouldn't the module just properly have a working "Original link" line? This appears to me to be a module error that needs fixing.
Rik Brown
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Wednesday, 01 February 2017 17:04
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Hello Rik,

Sorry, that's not what I meant. I was referring to the read more when you are editing the blog post, http://take.ms/GaI6y .

Alternatively there is another way which is to disable automatic truncation in the module so that no truncation occurs and it will not be stripping any html tags. To disable automatic truncation, http://take.ms/8CoOG
Mark
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Wednesday, 01 February 2017 17:18
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Hi Mark,

The problem we have is that all of these "blog" pages are created from external RSS feeds (30+ per day) via cron. So we wouldn't be able to manually edit them to add a "read more" link.

I'll try setting the module "total characters" to zero and see how that goes.

Thanks. -- Rik
Rik Brown
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Sunday, 05 February 2017 03:01
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Alright, keep us update regarding this.
Arlex Wong
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Sunday, 05 February 2017 14:27
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