SimplePortal
Support => English Support => Topic started by: ricland on May 30, 2012, 09:06:17 AM
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My portal page is showing the whole article from the forum.
How do I cut off the amount of the article it displays?
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If it's an article then admin > simple portal > configuration > article settings
and change maximum characters before cut off.
If you are using a SP blocks for the display, then look for similar character settings in the block's configuration.
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You may also use the Simple Portal cutoff tag.
Put this anywhere you want in your article:
[cutoff]
And it will ONLY do its job in a block or in the articles portion of the portal page
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Wish SMF had this tag for guests... looking for some kind of read more tag that would require login. A lot of the look but no read/hide topics from guests are obselete.
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You may also use the Simple Portal cutoff tag.
Put this anywhere you want in your article:
[cutoff]
And it will ONLY do its job in a block or in the articles portion of the portal page
Thanks,
This worked. The article cut-off switch did not.
Also, how do I get text to flow around an image in a post? Is there a mod for that?
And...
2. changing background color of posts -- alternating?
3. getting rid of the user info underneath log, and for that matter, everything underneath the log til the forum itself.
4. Is there a "comment" mode?
5. What affect does simple machine mods such as "advance recent posts" have on the portal ... portal page?
6. ...
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There are mods to allow text flow around images. http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2305 (http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2305)
General changes to the theme -- could be made in the theme's files.
Changes like alternating background color of posts in boardnews or articles -- would require a change in the appropriate files. The articles template, or else portalblocks.php.
Advanced recent posts modifies the info center, and so should not affect the portal page -- but I have not given it a try.