Hi,
I am new to MT. I am moving http://www.logic-cafe.com onto it - it is currently written in a bespoke CMS, but I want to move it to a platform where I can take the advantages of community functionality etc.
Initially I want to recreate and migrate the Logic Cafe site 'as-is' - with exactly the same structure.
One of the things which I can't work out how to do is to have an article list on the main index, but have the first article display a much larger excerpt than subsequent articles (take a look at the site).
Do I need to create 2 article lists in my main index template?
I know basic HTML and understand the MT template language fairly well, but I am not a programmer and do not know how to code 'logic' which might be required to do this.
Any pointers anyone could give would be great :)
Cheers,
Matt
Reported on Movable Type 4.2
You'll want to modify your Entry Summary module to integrate this change, but this is the gist of how you'd tell it to do a large excerpt of, say, 250 words:
<mt:If name="__first__">
<mt:EntryBody words="250"/>
<mt:Else>
<mt:EntryBody/>
</mt:If>