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Re: Plugin: pfa_beginning - excerpt generation based on length attribute
> philipashlock wrote:
> I’m not sure if i correctly understand you. Are you saying that when the remainder of your entry gets cut off, it will cut off the entry anywhere and not specifically at the end of the paragraph? The plugin is designed to end the excerpt at the end of a paragraph, so an ellipses seems a little inappropriate. You can just direct someone to the remainder of the article with a permalink and not have to denote the continuation of the article with an ellipses at the end of a paragraph (which would probably be the end of a sentence).
Ok, I just read over you entry again. Am I correct in understanding that you would like to specify the number of paragraphs to use regardless of how much text is in them? This is definately something that I could do, but I’m not sure how many people will need such a feature. However, if I’m correct in understanding what you want, I’ll try to find some time to make the modification to provide this feature.
Aye that’s it. But as I said I found a compromise that sort of works, so I’ll just make sure users don’t exceed the 2.5line rule. Sorry if I got you to add ellipses, I was just trying to figure out why it kept cutting off.
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#62 2005-05-29 13:43:21
- marios
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Re: Plugin: pfa_beginning - excerpt generation based on length attribute
philippashlok,
<cite>I could offer the ability to use a word count rather than a character count to determine the excerpt length though. If this is desired, please let me know.</cite>
I am looking for just this
regards,marios
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Re: Plugin: pfa_beginning - excerpt generation based on length attribute
I would echo the desirability of having a word count option…
Thanks
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Re: Plugin: pfa_beginning - excerpt generation based on length attribute
doesn’t safe page excerpt do something similar? I was thinking more it detects (if that’s the right word) where the first p starts and the closing p ends ignoring the actual word count
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Re: Plugin: pfa_beginning - excerpt generation based on length attribute
Would it be possible to not wrap the excerpt in a p tag if the excerpt has been manually entered and has a p already. As it is, if I add text to the excerpt I end up with the following generated by pfa_beginning:
<code>
<p> <p>manually entered excerpt</p> </p>
</code>
Notice the extraneous p tags. Not exactly valid.
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Re: Plugin: pfa_beginning - excerpt generation based on length attribute
why not remove the manually added p tags? I would like the excerpt to be generate with p tags so I don’t have to. In what situation would you manually need to add the p tags?
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Re: Plugin: pfa_beginning - excerpt generation based on length attribute
Love the plugin —- very simple to use. While I had some concern since I had no clue what the txp:beginning tag would do, I now realize how easy this is!
Thanks!
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Re: Plugin: pfa_beginning - excerpt generation based on length attribute
The p tags are automatically entered via textile in textpattern.
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Re: Plugin: pfa_beginning - excerpt generation based on length attribute
hmm I’m not sure I understand. I have textile enabled and I use the plugin but I haven’t had the p tags duplicated.
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Re: Plugin: pfa_beginning - excerpt generation based on length attribute
Here is how I do it:
I enter the content in the article body. Then a copy a part of a paragraph into the excerpt where textile wraps it with a p tag. Then bam double p tags when published. I think textile was added to the excerpt only in the later versions of textpattern.
I have gotten around this by turning off textile in excerpts sitewide through a plugin called upm_textile_excerpt comment #7
but I would like pfa_beginning to strip tags out of the excerpt.
Last edited by tinyfly (2005-06-01 18:43:24)
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Re: Plugin: pfa_beginning - excerpt generation based on length attribute
tinyfly: I updated the plugin and removed the extraneous tags.
You can re-download the file
Last edited by philipashlock (2005-06-02 02:10:49)
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Re: Plugin: pfa_beginning - excerpt generation based on length attribute
ah makes sense now – i don’t use an excerpt plugin, just one of those auto generate exceprts that take the first few words and autogenerate the excerpt. er, i mean this plugin :)
your way is probably better for precision and management, but I guess that makes me lazy :)
Last edited by sekhu (2005-06-02 07:06:36)
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