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    Posted by lgreco posts: 2

    I apologize if the answer to my question is covered on existing documentations or FAQs already. I did search the available literature however and I could not quite find the information I needed.

    My question is this.

    How can I tell the blog to display only the first paragraph of a post along with a link like "click here to see more"? There is the "...page... Wiki page pagination has not been enabled." delimiter for multipage postings but what about a delimiter to show only the first paragraph of the post? ))WordPress(( has the
    "!more"
    tag (enclosed in HTML brackets) for example.

    I am sure there is a tag for tiki blogs but I cannt quite find it. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks and best regards,
    -leo i

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee posts: 4657 Japan

    Tiki's "...page... Wiki page pagination has not been enabled." syntax seems to be the functional equivalent of WordPress's "More" tag. Putting ...page... Wiki page pagination has not been enabled. at the end of the first paragraph (or wherever you choose) ends the first page there and puts a "Read more (n pages)" link to the second page. Isn't this pretty much the same effect? Of course the blog author has to insert this tag manually in each post; there's no way to configure a Tiki blog to display only the first paragraph and a read-more link by default.

    -- Gary

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    Posted by lgreco posts: 2

    Gary, thanks for the reply.

    The .page. delimiter splits the post in two pages. That adds two more "click" requirements for the user. First you click to read more, from the blog summary. This will take you to the first page of the post which is what you just read in the blog summary. There you'll have to click again to go to the remaining of the content.

    This is bad interface, imho, because the first click will take you to the same content that you just read.

    WP's .more. tag takes you to the whole post but points to a bookmark tag at the end of the paragraph that was displayed in the summary page.

    It's a matter of interface I guess. From your response I take that there is nothing else to use.

    I'll take this as a minor flaw of tiki's interface. Considering that tiki met all my other expectations for a nice CMS, I guess I could live with the .page. flaw.

    Best,

    -leo i.

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    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee posts: 4657 Japan

    > I'll take this as a minor flaw of tiki's interface. Considering that tiki met all my other expectations for a nice CMS, I guess I could live with the .page. flaw.

    I see your point. I imagine the ...page... Wiki page pagination has not been enabled. tag in Tiki's blogs was transplanted from its articles feature where, if you notice, the presentation is similar to WP's use of "read more" in that each article ("post") has a lead paragraph and then a read-more link to the full article. With articles the tag makes sense since the read-more link gives the reader new content with one click, while it doesn't in a blog post.

    Seems like there's a request for enhancement lurking here, maybe a checkbox on the blog edit page for "show only first paragraph and 'read more' link".... smile

    -- Gary

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