Hello Tom,

I am really sorry for the delay of this reply as it is a weekend for us here. I am really sorry but I don't think this is possible out of the box If you really need to truncate the content part rather than the intro text, you need to edit the file /components/com_easyblog/helpers/helper.php and modify the codes in the method truncateContent

Are you already splitting up the introtext / content in the blog itself?

I spent 2.3 hours in that file and could not accomplish what I was looking for.

I want my text to end after a set number of characters. I want it to look like it does when viewing the blogs. Verdana 14px with all spacing and formatting. I would like it to auto truncate on both Frontpage & Entry page so I don't have to insert a READ MORE - break everytime and waste time trying to line it up to be consistent. I think that is the point of truncation. I do not want the text to be really small, smashed together and without any formatting. How do I make the exact changes to accomplish this or at this point feel free to go into the code and make the changes if it shortens things.

Thank you for all your continued help.

Please see attached images 'DO NOT WANT' & 'WANT'

Hello Tom,

If the automated truncation is configured to truncate by "Characters", the html codes are stripped to avoid any unclosed html tag. If you want to retain the html codes as it is, you need to configure it so that it is truncated by paragraph