Remove Unnecessary Text - Full URL
By David on Thursday, 13 April 2017
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Just looking at minimising noise on the feed (makes the good content stand out!) and was wondering if you could change the urls below shared articles and posts to just state the base url without the article title.

eg. I shared a post about a threatened frog, (see attached image) underneath the frog is a green link with the title of the article. Under that is the full url link to the article. And under that is the introtext to the article.

It looks like this:

Endangered alpine Baw Baw frogs make rare public appearance
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-08/endangered-alpine-baw-baw-frogs-make-first-public-appearance/7076438
An endangered species of frogs that lives only on Victoria's Mt Baw Baw is unveiled to the public.

This is quite messy - there's a lot of text and it detracts from the image and link itself. What FB does is simply have the link but without the article name in the URL, this is usually the bold link in any case. So it should look like this, much neater I'm sure you will agree..

Endangered alpine Baw Baw frogs make rare public appearance
http://www.abc.net.au
An endangered species of frogs that lives only on Victoria's Mt Baw Baw is unveiled to the public.
Hi David,

I am really sorry but unfortunately we cannot accommodate your request currently as it is quite difficult to achieve and beyond our support scope's policy as outlined in http://stackideas.com/support

Having said that, if you require us to perform the customization for you, you can always request for a quote from us at https://crm.stackideas.com and select "Customizations" . Our sales person would be glad to send you a quote for the customizations that you have requested.

Or perhaps, you can voice it as a feature request so we can implement this in our incoming release
Muhammad Fadhli
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Thursday, 13 April 2017 15:20
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Why not just use CSS to hide lengthy titles? Here's some code you can put into a custom.css file:



#es.view-pages .es-stream-embed__title.es-stream-embed--border {

   white-space: nowrap;

   width: 100px;

   overflow: hidden;

   text-overflow: ellipsis;

}


Clear your cache to see the updated version. Set the width to what you want it to be.
Josh Lewis
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Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:27
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Hello Josh,

I believe David is trying to "shorten" the link instead of the entire content. The problem is there are just too many generic top level domains and there is no way to know what the base url of the site is.

For instance, the site could be of a subfolder:

http://site.com/subfolder/index.php
http://site.com/index.php
Mark
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Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:11
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