Hi Jason,

1. You would have to enable truncation in order to truncate part of the content to display on the blog listing. But keep in mind this will also strip html tags off the post.

If you want to retain the html formatting on the blog listing, you have to use readmore tags in your articles.

2. Unfortunately this is actually how module assignment in Joomla works. It will also assign to all pages under the menu item unless they have their own menu item and the module is not assigned.

I believe the advanced module manager allows you to select which article/categories/page types to assign the module to(http://take.ms/bDLE0). They do have similar feature for EasyBlog too but it is under their pro license as you can see from the link below.

https://www.regularlabs.com/extensions/advancedmodulemanager/features

It will also assign to all pages under the menu item unless they have their own menu item and the module is not assigned.

In your EasyBlog showcase you have this

https://thegridasia.com/ shows all the articles on the site = showcase

which when you click on a page shows this

https://thegridasia.com/seafaring/a-spectacle-beckons-in-the-monaco-of-the-east-this-april = individual article without the showcase

or this showcase example

http://www.variation-design.de/index.php/blog-vd = showcase

click on article

http://www.variation-design.de/index.php/blog-vd/entry/die-marketing-4-ps-promotion = individual blog post

How is this done in EasyBlog?

Hey Jason,

For the gridasia site, the module is placed on the home page, not on EasyBlog listing page, so it should not affect post entry pages. Other than that, I do not have their site access to check how they set it up.

For variation-design, I do not see any showcase module.

You can also try creating menu items for the blog categories, then unassign the module in these categories. The post entry pages under these categories should not show the module.

This is frustrating as I am trying to create something similar to this for:

Blog home page

https://foxality.org/blog

Single blog post.

https://foxality.org/blog/arco-ist-sch-pitze

I know they use EasyBlog as its in your showcase but you don't know how its done?

Hey Jason,

Just to be sure, we are talking about the showcase module correct?

If you look at https://foxality.org/blog, there is no showcase module here: http://take.ms/HoQE1 vs http://take.ms/Wbdib

So if you want your blog listing to be similar, you would need to remove the showcase module from the /articles page.

Ah Ha!

I think I am confused about what I need to put in!

What modules do I need to put in to achieve the same as Foxality?

Blog home page

https://foxality.org/blog

Single blog post.

https://foxality.org/blog/arco-ist-sch-pitze

1. Remove showcase module
2.????

Ok. I did some experimenting with the settings etc. based on your prompting. Not sure I got it exactly but I improved the look...

Issue - 1 of the articles did not truncate and I cant work out why. It is also different fonts etc.

Thanks a lot.

I am getting there!

Hey Jason,

1 of the articles did not truncate and I cant work out why

As mentioned in my earlier reply, truncation will always prioritize on readmore tags, and since you have a readmore tag in that section of the content(http://take.ms/I8QMt), the post will be truncated at that place.

As for the font, the styling is different because it is defined in the content itself, and readmore tags will actually retain all html styling before it(http://take.ms/nES8K).

Note: Readmore tag/block will truncate the content in that position and ignores the global truncation setting, useful if you want to truncate different posts at different places. It will also retain the HTML formatting of the content before it.

Great. I now understand. Thanks for all the help.

You're most welcome Jason and glad I could help.

Regards.