Topic: "Read More" on Portal Page

[ricland]

My  portal page is showing the whole article from the forum.

How do I cut off the amount of the article it displays?

[movedgoalposts]

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.

[AngelinaBelle]

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

[andy]

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.

[ricland]

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. ...

[AngelinaBelle]

There are mods to allow text flow around images. 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.