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{exp:ed_text:truncate
    wrapper="li"
    wrapper_class="summary"
    end_url="{url_title}"
    end_text="Read in full ..."
    char_limit="100"}

{big_long_text}

{/exp:ed_text:truncate}

19 Comments

1. Malcolm
   10/07/09 at 13:33

   I’ve been using the old gms_truncator for a while and this looks like a great upgrade. Many thanks for making it available.

   Just one tiny comment; I cut and pasted the example code from the plugin information and it didn’t work. When I check back the close tag is {/exp:ed_text:truncator} rather than {/exp:ed_text:truncate}.

   Just thought I’d flag it up in case anyone else did the same.

   Thanks again,

   Malcolm

2. Glen Swinfield
   10/07/09 at 13:54

   

   Thanks Malcolm, I’ve updated the usage example accordingly.

3. pab
   13/07/09 at 04:45

   very nice, going to go and try this out on a new project I’m working on. the added break_words is a great idea.

4. Todd
   21/07/09 at 17:31

   Can this truncate the results of a weblog query? If so, how?

5. Glen
   21/07/09 at 20:09

   

   @Todd - sorry - not sure what you mean, provide an example if you can and I’ll see what I can do.

6. Todd
   21/07/09 at 20:40

   Hello Glen,

   Sorry, I don’t think I fully understood what the plug-in did when I wrote the question. I think it does exactly what I need. Thanks so much for your hard work!

7. Wes Baker
   06/08/09 at 01:23

   What about truncating the text at a certain word or symbol instead of a length?

8. Glen Swinfield
   07/08/09 at 21:41

   

   @wes - quite possible - when might that be useful? Give me an example and I’ll see about adding it.

9. Wes Baker
   08/08/09 at 02:11

   I was thinking something along the lines of a feature that Wordpress has where you add a comment that says <!—more—> and only the top section is shown on the index and a view more link is shown for the full post. It’s a way of doing a summary without duplicating the content.

10. E P Alton
    20/08/09 at 19:35

    Excellent! The stripping out of HTML is exactly what I was looking for and I was about to resort to jquery. Thank you so much!

11. Ben Higham
    21/08/09 at 01:51

    Brilliant plugin! This is definitely something that should’ve been included in EE by default.

12. E P Alton
    03/09/09 at 14:22

    Glen,

    I’m having an issue where the character limits are varying for particular items in the loop. If you look at items 5-7 here, you’ll see what I mean.

    Here’s the markup for the truncated portion:

    {exp:ed_text:truncate char_limit=“230” end_text=”...”}{blog_body}{/exp:ed_text:truncate}

    If you think anything can be done about this, please let me know.

    Many thanks again for this excellent plugin.

    Regards,
    Ed

13. Glen
    03/09/09 at 15:04

    

    Ed,

    First off I think you haven’t closed the title link, which is causing some oddness.

    Regarding the character count can you change the char_limit to 300 and let me see the results. In the case of item 5 it seems to having trouble wit the ‘Volunteer Work Went Up in U.S.’  link, but it’s very difficult for me to debug it just by looking, it should be working.

14. E P Alton
    03/09/09 at 15:38

    Glen,
    I’m not seeing that unclosed link.
    I changed the count to 300 so if you want to see it again,  here it is.

15. Albert
    26/01/10 at 12:43

    Hi Glen,
    great Plugin. One question though: Will it work under EE 2.0
    Cheers
    awa

16. Glen Swinfield
    26/01/10 at 12:48

    

    Do you need an EE2 version? It’d be easy to create and if someone needs it it’d be motivation to get it done. ;)

17. Albert
    26/01/10 at 14:17

    Hi Glen,
    yes, I would be the one ;-) since I think, that this plugin is really good for the site´s usability. People who click an article´s more-link on the summary page will NOT jump to the top of the single entry, but to an anchor on the SE-page, where they can just continue reading. I found this funcionality on Wordpress-Blogs, but that will not make me switch CMS ;-)
    Would you be willing to help here? That would be very much appreciated.
    awa

18. Peter Hughes
    08/04/10 at 14:57

    Hi Glen

    Great little plugin, I just added a feature for a personal site that other people might like - basically a ‘min_chars’ parameter to allow you to specify it to not add the ‘end_text’ to any text that may be shorter than the char_limit. This is useful if you’re not sure exactly how much text each entry you’re truncating will have.

    Might I also suggest that you remove the space between the end of the truncated text and the end_text? It’s annoying if you’re using ‘...’ to signify truncated text and have it spaced out. Can look a little weird.

    Anyways, many thanks :)

19. Rob Hodges
    02/09/10 at 16:59

    I would love a version for EE2!

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