[plugin] [ORPHAN] rss_auto_excerpt

squaredeye · 2007-03-18 10:23:41

chosig,
feel free to take your time to figure out TXP, you’ll find its really worth it…in the meantime:

in your page:

<txp:article limit="1"/>
<txp:artcile form="auto_excerpt_p1" limit="4" />

in a form called “auto_excerpt_p1” (or whatever you want to call it to match your naming conventions)

<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
<txp:rss_auto_excerpt paragraphs="1" />

That’s the simplest method. You can always add more attributes if you like.
:)

chosig · 2007-03-18 19:02:32

thanks a bunch ma_smith – took a few until i saw that you had a typo (cut n’ pasted)…

I now have this, and it works like a charm:
default page template (cropped):

<txp:article limit="1"/>
<txp:article form="blog_excerpt" limit="4" />

and my blog_excerpt form (full)

<txp:gbl_if_not_first_article>
<txp:permlink><txp:title /></txp:permlink>
<txp:rss_auto_excerpt paragraphs="1" />
</txp:gbl_if_not_first_article>

had some issues with a “double”, the lastest article was shown both in full and in the excerpts, which I saw I wasn’t the only one to have problems with – thus the gbl_if_not_first_article, I made a plugin (wee :P), well… actually i just reversed the if_first_article core tag, and i’ve also figured out that first three letter is to identify the author?

I’m pasting the plugin here, not the right place I know, but can somebody that actually knows what they’re doing have a look at it, and if I’m not way off the mark I’ll put it where it belongs (textpattern.org?).

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Last edited by chosig (2007-03-18 19:04:15)

squaredeye · 2007-03-18 20:39:36

chosig,
you can simply use the offset attribute in the article tag to avoid the doubling issue :) sorry about the typo.

chosig · 2007-03-18 20:56:39

ma_smith wrote:

chosig,
you can simply use the offset attribute in the article tag to avoid the doubling issue :) sorry about the typo.

how can i use the offset in the article tag since the output of the excerpts are controlled with the plugin?

and while I’m at it, there isn’t a way to not out put the “read more…” link if there isn’t more to read? just realised that I have a bunch of one paragraph posts… ;-)

squaredeye · 2007-03-18 22:53:41

chosig,
it is the article tag that produces the output, the auto_excerpt is part of the form. You may need to touch up on your wiki or faqs before you go further :)

trailgirl · 2007-03-26 22:39:07

Great plugin. Just one question, is there a way to turn off the “read more” link for articles that are fully excerpted, in other words, a single paragraph post would not need a “Read more” link when using a paragraph as the excerpt length. I thought maybe the showlinkwithbody option has something to do with it but apparently not?

merz1 · 2007-03-28 11:49:01

showlinkwithbody

Determines whether the permlink to the article will be shown when the article body is displayed because the generated excerpt is not shorter than the article body.

Default: 0 (No, don’t show … It is turned OFF by default when the parameter is NOT set/visible)

Example: showlinkwithbody=“1”

If this doesn’t work it must be a bug :-).

trailgirl · 2007-03-28 13:22:46

Thanks, merz1, that’s what I thought. I have:

.bq <txp:rss_auto_excerpt paragraphs=“1” linkclass=“continue” showlinkwithbody=“1” />

but still can’t get it to work. I’ll look at it again, maybe there’s something about my article or form that makes the plugin think it has more than one paragraph.

wilshire · 2007-04-16 02:17:07

trailgirl- I think you want to use:

<txp:rss_auto_excerpt paragraphs="1" linkclass="continue" showlinkwithbody="0" />

That would mean that the Read More link would not be generated when the full body of the article is being displayed.

wilshire · 2007-04-16 02:52:10

rss_auto_excerpt 0.5

The latest version adds two new attributes to the plugin.

wrapreadmore – wraps the read more link within the last closing tag of the auto-excerpt which has been requested many times including here earlier in this thread.
stripbreakstabs – strips out line breaks and tabs when generating the auto-excerpt. This was added based on Nathan Smith’s idea of using the plugin to generate content for the meta description tag in his post Lazy Textpattern SEO

For example, place the read more link within the last closing tag with the read more link wrapped in a span tag:

<txp:rss_auto_excerpt length="30" ending="..." wrapreadmore="1" linkwraptag="span" />

Download rss_auto_excerpt

feragnoli · 2007-04-20 14:36:49

hello Rob, very nice plugin.
I have one problem, though: I can’t manage to wrap the excerpt in a  rather than in .
when I set excerptwraptag="span" he just spits:  . . . . .  .
Is it a bug or I’m missing something?

Thank you

wilshire · 2007-04-21 03:23:33

feragnoli wrote:

hello Rob, very nice plugin.
I have one problem, though: I can’t manage to wrap the excerpt in a  rather than in .
when I set excerptwraptag="span" he just spits:  . . . . .  .
Is it a bug or I’m missing something?

The  tags are likely from textile. You can either turn textile off for your excerpts or use a custom field for your excerpt.

jonnott · 2007-06-04 09:44:08

I’m looking to implement something similar to rss_auto_excerpt’s paragraph functionality, but outside of txp – is there any way to get a peek at the source code without actually having txp and installing the plugin?

feragnoli · 2007-06-28 22:23:51

hello, on a site I’m working on I’m using the excerpt field as an alternative version of the body text (read: body=first language; excerpt=second language).
since the plugin is able to excerpt from a custom field is there a way to make it excerpt from the excerpt field rather than the body?
thank you

merz1 · 2007-07-03 14:21:56

@feragnoli: Good idea! Vote +1

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