Modifying excerpts

[Joes Staal]

Hi,

I've been playing around with blogofile for the last couples of days and I've got the feeling I am not understanding something correctly.

I want to modify the excerpt function by setting adding a line <!--readmore--> in my posts (all written in markdown). It wasn't difficult to get that to work, I just had to add/change the following in _config.py:

# Overrule the excerpt function from blogofile itself.

def excerpt(content, num=0):

    index = content.find('<!--readmore-->')

    if (index != -1):

        return content[:index]

    else:

        return content

blog.post_excerpts.method = excerpt

blog.post_excerpts.enabled = True

So far so good. But the next step I want to take is to have a 'Read more' link under the post that links to the full post. I can't find out how to realise that and any pointers would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Joes

[Péter Zsoldos]

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Joes Staal <joes....@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

So far so good. But the next step I want to take is to have a 'Read more' link under the post that links to the full post. I can't find out how to realise that and any pointers would be much appreciated.

I would modify the templates where the excerpts should show, e.g.: _templates/blog/archive_index.mako or _templates/blog/chronological.mako.

Inside the template I'd then have something like this:

<article>

<h2>${post.title}</h2>

<p>${post.excerpt}</p>

<p><a href="${post.permapath()}">Read more</a></p>

</article>

HTH,

Peter

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[Doug Latornell]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Péter Zsoldos <peter....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Joes Staal <joes....@gmail.com> wrote:

[...]

So far so good. But the next step I want to take is to have a 'Read more' link under the post that links to the full post. I can't find out how to realise that and any pointers would be much appreciated.

I would modify the templates where the excerpts should show, e.g.: _templates/blog/archive_index.mako or _templates/blog/chronological.mako.

Inside the template I'd then have something like this:

<article>

<h2>${post.title}</h2>

<p>${post.excerpt}</p>

<p><a href="${post.permapath()}">Read more</a></p>

</article>

Yep, that should work. FWIW post.path is a synonym for post.permapath().
 

[Joes Staal]

Excellent, thank you very much, that does the trick.

I have no experience with the template system, so I am learning on the job.

Thx,

Joes