Use a page part and call that if you want to choose the excerpt or you can use truncate https://github.com/saturnflyer/radiant-truncate-extension to take the first X characters from the article and, well, truncate them.
-- Rachel On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:19 AM, Obi <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Joel, I had no idea that was in there! > > The code you sent me provides a list of links, is there anyway to format it > so that it shows a small excerpt for each link, and keeps the site > formatting styles (header1,2 etc.)? > > Basically so it would look like this: > > http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/3228/screenshot20101108at191.jpg > > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated > > On 08/11/2010, at 17:41, Joel Oliveira wrote: > > It's built in. > > <r:find url="/news"><!-- or blog, articles, whatever --> > <ul> > <r:children:each order="asc" limit="20" > > <li> > <p><r:link /></p> > <p class="excerpt"><r:content part="excerpt" /></p> > </li> > </r:children:each> > </ul> > </r:find> > > This is off the top of my head so I'm not 100% sure that will work. But > it's close. > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Obi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Does anyone know of an extension that will allow me to automatically >> display recent articles with a title and a small excerpt? > > > >
