[Radiant] How can i extract part from page for auto teaser making?

2010-01-15 Thread Dmitry Belitsky
Hello there,
how can i use custom number of words/letters for generating teasers  
for articles?
Is there are extension for it?
I only found Summarize extension, but this is not what i want for my  
clients.
I want simplest solution, which will cut first paragraph or first n  
letters.
Thanks.

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Re: [Radiant] How can i extract part from page for auto teaser making?

2010-01-15 Thread Anton Aylward
Dmitry Belitsky said the following on 01/15/2010 06:56 AM:
 Hello there,
 how can i use custom number of words/letters for generating teasers  
 for articles?
 Is there are extension for it?
 I only found Summarize extension, but this is not what i want for my  
 clients.
 I want simplest solution, which will cut first paragraph or first n  
 letters.
 Thanks.

In many types of blog software there is a mechanism whereby you can has
the long list of postings, or at least the 'first paragraph', each with
a read more... tab at the end.  In some, you do this by inserting a
marker at that point.

In my Radiant based blog I achieve the same thing by use of page-parts.
What you call the teaser I have as the main page part.  If you just
visit the base you get the list of these 'first paragraphs'.  If you
click though you get the whole article, which is in additional page-parts.

Of course you could equally well have a page part called 'teaser'.
I can imagine a RSS service that ignores the real body but serves up the
'teaser'.  Of course in that case you'd have to redundantly fill in the
'teaser' page part, which is why I refer my approach.  DRY.

Of course this depends whether or not you want to 'extract'.  I think my
approach offers more control and less redundancy, but then I'm bigoted
about it since its my idea :-)

To be honest, the Layouts I use make extensive use of page parts and
inheritance, as I mentioned in an earlier posting about constructing a
sidebar.

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The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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Re: [Radiant] How can i extract part from page for auto teaser making?

2010-01-15 Thread subsor...@gmail.com
Have you tried the truncate extension?

http://github.com/astashov/radiant-truncate-extension


2010/1/15 Dmitry Belitsky dmitry.belit...@gmail.com

 Hello there,
 how can i use custom number of words/letters for generating teasers
 for articles?
 Is there are extension for it?
 I only found Summarize extension, but this is not what i want for my
 clients.
 I want simplest solution, which will cut first paragraph or first n
 letters.
 Thanks.

 --
 Dmitry Belitsky
 http://belitsky.info




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Re: [Radiant] How can i extract part from page for auto teaser making?

2010-01-15 Thread Dmitry Belitsky
Thanks, looks like it is exactly what i need.
Right now I'm using page part for this,
but this is not the best solution for obvious users.

On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:39 PM, subsor...@gmail.com wrote:

 Have you tried the truncate extension?

 http://github.com/astashov/radiant-truncate-extension


 2010/1/15 Dmitry Belitsky dmitry.belit...@gmail.com

 Hello there,
 how can i use custom number of words/letters for generating teasers
 for articles?
 Is there are extension for it?
 I only found Summarize extension, but this is not what i want for my
 clients.
 I want simplest solution, which will cut first paragraph or first n
 letters.
 Thanks.

 --
 Dmitry Belitsky
 http://belitsky.info




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