Blog - List Posts - Not summarizing about orchard HOT 4 CLOSED

@bleroy commented:

That should probably be a setting on the blog or on the post. My own pro blog for example doesn't summarize and I don't mind but I understand that's not necessarily the desired behavior for everyone. Having an option to specify the summary explicitly or to add a separator in the body might help too.

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@Jetski5822 commented:

The issue was raised to me via my boss, as they are using the blogs for something quite specific. But you are right, i think it should be a setting, i may hook up the solution i wrote to a setting. Would it be worth sending this in? or are you guys going to look in to it in the current iteration?

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@bleroy commented:

Sure, send it in as a patch. Contribution model is still pending but should be ready shortly.

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@heskew commented:

I hooked up a summary template variation (Orchard.Core/Common/Views/DisplayTemplates/Parts/Common.Body.Summary.ascx) that does everything on the view side with a HtmlHelper and string extensions so changing what the summary looks like is as simple as overriding the template in a theme.

It's really simple for now and that's intentional. In the cards for future summary functionality is some way to explicitly create a summary with an additional input, falling back to looking for a comment in the body markup (kinda like wordpress, and other app I'd imagine) and finally falling back to an auto generated summary (excerpt, as we're calling them) on the way out.

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