Size of Blog Excerpts on the Home Page

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Logik! Posted: Wed, Aug 16 2006 10:07 AM

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I notice that some themes, such as the "Kid Congo" theme, respect the Aggregate Post Excerpt Size setting, while others, like my favorite (PaperClip) do not.  I've been mucking about with trying to copy elements of the Kid Congo theme into the appropriate PaperClip theme, without success.

What do I need to put into the appropriate skin files (Skin-EntryList.asc I presume?) in order to shrink the post sizes that show up on the blog home page?

Thanks

Logik!

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Logik! replied on Sun, Aug 27 2006 8:28 AM

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The following thread has been helpful to me:

http://communityserver.org/forums/thread/532280.aspx

Logik!

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scottelkin replied on Tue, Sep 26 2006 10:11 PM

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I am stuck on this point.  Can someone write up exactly what you need to do to make this happen?

I dont undrestand where "Aggregate Post Excerpt Size" is set, nor what needs to be changed in the Skin-EntryList file in order to make this happen.
 

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Logik! replied on Wed, Sep 27 2006 12:12 PM

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You don't need to do anything with Skin-EntryList.  What I ended up doing to control paging, as I indicated here, was to go into the Views folder of the current theme, and alter the View-Home.ascx file.

You'll want to change the EntryListContainer line to the following (or similar):

   <Blog:EntryListContainer id="r" runat="Server" DisplayExcerpts="false" EnablePaging="true" PageSize="7" />

I set mine to show 7 items on a page, with paging enabled, and no excerpts (for one of my blogs).  If it's excerpts you want, then this is controlled in the GUI configuration of the blog itself, via the Control Panel.  For mirrored Blogs, each mirrored entry has an option for the excerpt size, and this can also be controlled at the blog level.

http://.../controlpanel/BlogAdmin/Options/SkinOptions.aspx

See: "Aggregate Post Excerpt Size" on that page.

Logik!

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daveburke replied on Fri, Sep 29 2006 2:25 PM

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Was curious, Scott.  Did you want to display excerpts on your home site or somewhere else?  I think your full-text home site works the way it is.

If for another site, what skin did you say you were using?  There is inheritance going on in certain themes, that is, if a control isn't in the themes area it bubbles up to the default theme to grab those settings.

Dave