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janw · 2006-02-20 10:46:18

On my homepage I have the last 5 news-items with excerpts and “read more” butons.
Sometimes there’s nothing more than only the excerpt so I don’t need teh “read more”.

How can I achieve this?

Thanks

wet · 2006-02-20 12:55:40

I’d reverse your way of editing articles and always write an article body, while longer posts would also have an excerpt.

Then use txp:if_excerpt to conditionally include txp:excerpt and the “read more…” link from your article form.

janw · 2006-02-20 13:02:08

Isn’t that a bit odd?

That’ll work but I would have to change all my articles and it seems a bit the wrong way to me…
Isn’t there another way?

wet · 2006-02-20 13:09:58

There’s always another way. txp:if_excerpt is just the way it was meant to be by the founding fathers of Textpattern.

maniqui · 2006-02-20 16:04:20

> janw wrote:

Isn’t that a bit odd?
That’ll work but I would have to change all my articles and it seems a bit the wrong way to me…
Isn’t there another way?

I would go by changing your articles…

The “excerpt” usually is an excerpt of the article body. I think the wrong way is to have an excerpt but not a body.

Check:

How do I show only an excerpt in article lists from TXP FAQs

How to use excerpts in FreshText

zem · 2006-02-20 23:23:22

There’s no <txp:if_body> tag, but it wouldn’t be hard to make one as a plugin.

janw · 2006-02-22 07:29:52

I know an excerpt is an excerpt from a body, but the solution as it’s meant to be seems strange to me.
To use body as an intro and excerpt as the body.
This is what I mean to achieve. An intro and an body.

wet · 2006-02-22 07:37:26

> janw wrote:

Sometimes there’s nothing more than only the excerpt so I don’t need teh “read more”.

I know an excerpt is an excerpt from a body

So what exactly does this excerpt excerpt, in lack of a body? I feel those two assumptions contradict themselves.

It’s not that I wanted you to change your way of generating content, but I simple do not get it how you can judge the method which works with out-of-the box Textpattern tags as “odd”.

janw · 2006-02-22 07:55:07

In the FAQ it says:

[…]Textpattern provides two main text fields per article: the Body and the Excerpt. The Body is the main article content. The Excerpt is normally used for a summary, <strong>introductory paragraph</strong>, abstract or similar.[…]

I mean to use it as an intro. Sometimes there’s nothing more than an intro (just a small article).
If I use it that way it seems odd to me to put everything in “excerpt” and use body as an intro.

Mary · 2006-02-23 02:36:23

janw, I’m not sure I understand the problem here: if there is ever only an excerpt, can you not use the body field, since it really isn’t an intro nor an excerpt? i.e: if there is both, use both, if there isn’t use body?

Last edited by Mary (2006-02-23 02:36:39)

janw · 2006-02-28 07:43:45

That does the trick…
Sometimes the solution is very easy :-)
Thanks a lot.

wet · 2006-02-28 07:51:51

Where’s the difference?

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