Hey,
I'm not to MT but I love it so far. However, I've been having problems with my blog preferences...
I'd like to limit the number of entries to my blog page to 10 and have my posts truncated to, say, 600 characters...so you can only see the first 600 characters of any given entry. As it stands, the blog is just LONG, and if you want to skip a post and go to the next, you have to scroll a lot.
I tried going into preferences > publishing > entry > Entry listing default > 10
and tried shortening the 'excerpt length' from there, but NOTHING happened on the blog.
Thanks
What appears on the main index of your blog is a combination of some blog preferences and/or template tags.
Without editing any templates, you can place the first part of your blog entry in the "Body" field and the rest in the "Extended" field.
Using one of the default template sets, this should cause only the body to display for each entry on your homepage with a link to view the whole entry on the entry detail page.
If you want to edit the templates, you can search for use of the <$mt:EntryBody$> tag in the main index and replace it with the <$mt:EntryExcerpt$> tag.
Hope that helps.
I would recommend to edit the templates, instead of putting those 600 characters on your Body tab. The reason for this is that in the future you may want to change this strategy and it is wise to be able to do it...
So follow Beau's second advice, but be aware that depending on which template set you're using, you may have to edit the Entry Summary template module, as the tag EntryBody may not appear directly on the 'Main Index' template, but on the 'Entry Summary' template module...
Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru
Excellent. Thanks a lot guys.