By Brett Thayer on Tuesday, 08 September 2015
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I have several concerns I am needing to address.

1. I need to manually truncation my articles and I can't determine how to do this. When I use read more EasyBlog doesn't not present the full article.

2. Headlines for each blog post are not displayed when the user clicks "Continue Reading"

3. I'm curious what the best way to present a blog is as it pertains to Google indexing the articles. I want to make sure Google and other search engines are properly indexing our posts and see us as adding content to our site.

http://thatworksdesign.com
Hi Brett,

Please find my answers from your inquiries below.

1. I need to manually truncation my articles and I can't determine how to do this. When I use read more EasyBlog doesn't not present the full article.

You can control the truncation of your frontpage content by going to your backend > easyblog > settings > layout > truncation and adjust it accordingly, http://screencast.com/t/cppRg2X47 .

2. Headlines for each blog post are not displayed when the user clicks "Continue Reading"
Can you check if the following options is turn off from your backend > easyblog > settings > layout > post options, http://screencast.com
/t/UqTxXXlOkk0I ? If its turn off you can try to enable the option and see how it goes.

3. I'm curious what the best way to present a blog is as it pertains to Google indexing the articles. I want to make sure Google and other search engines are properly indexing our posts and see us as adding content to our site.

The best practice is to avoid duplicate url across your easyblog site and in order to achieve this you must set your seo settings to always follow one menu item which easyblog post - frontpage. With that you can avoid the duplicate url issue. Simply creating your easyblog post frontpage menu item inside your menu manager and then go to your backend > easyblog > settings > seo > advanced and choose "default" as routing behavior, http://screencast.com/t/bh6ORzDdFupy .

Hope these help.
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Tuesday, 08 September 2015 19:12
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You can control the truncation of your frontpage content by going to your backend > easyblog > settings > layout > truncation and adjust it accordingly, http://screencast.com/t/cppRg2X47 .


The problem is these setting do not look good or work properly for each post. I would prefer to manually choose where each post is trunctuated if possible.

Can you check if the following options is turn off from your backend > easyblog > settings > layout > post options, http://screencast.com


This option is set to on but strangely I have radio buttons rather than the blue and red sliders like your screen grab.
This did not fix the issue. Each blog entry still has no title.

http://thatworksdesign.com/blog/entry/the-perks-of-having-a-responsive-website
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Tuesday, 08 September 2015 22:08
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Hi Brett,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply.

This option is set to on but strangely I have radio buttons rather than the blue and red sliders like your screen grab.
This did not fix the issue. Each blog entry still has no title.

I've checked your website and it seems like you are using older version of easyblog (5.0.16). Perhaps you can try to update it to latest version (5.0.25) from your stackideas dashboard here, http://stackideas.com/dashboard and see if it will fix the issue on your site?
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Wednesday, 09 September 2015 10:38
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I've checked your website and it seems like you are using older version of easyblog (5.0.16). Perhaps you can try to update it to latest version (5.0.25) from your stackideas dashboard here, http://stackideas.com/dashboard and see if it will fix the issue on your site?


Updated as you suggested but I still have no headlines for each blog entry.
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Wednesday, 09 September 2015 23:26
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Hi Brett,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply. Can you provide us with your Joomla backend and FTP access instead so we can take a closer look on your issue?

If you are requested to submit your site details, you may do so under the tab Site Details below. Please be rest assured that these information will only be visible to the support team from Stack Ideas.
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Friday, 11 September 2015 15:18
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I'm adding the requested site details below.

I've also noticed the blog entries look conjected and need a bit more space between each entry.

Thanks for your help.
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Friday, 11 September 2015 22:25
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Hi Brett,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it weekends for all of us here.

I've checked your site and it seems like you have disabled "show post title" from your category settings as you can see from my screenshot here, http://screencast.com/t/plcgO3raQ0 . I've enabled the option for you and the post title is showing correctly now.

I've also noticed the blog entries look conjected and need a bit more space between each entry.

Can you try to apply the following css fix inside your template css file and see how it goes?
div#fd.eb .eb-post-title {
line-height: 34px;
}

div#fd.eb .eb-post+.eb-post {
margin-top: 100px;
}
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Monday, 14 September 2015 11:52
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