Automatic Read More in Joomla
Posted in Joomla on February 7, 2010
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We've always wanted to be able to set up Joomla to automatically add a "Read More" link for articles in Category Blog or Section Blog Layouts so that the articles would all be the same length and they would line up just as pretty as you please. Google revealed a handful of other people attempting the same thing, but having no solution. So Mango wrote a plugin for it.
By popular request, we have added the following new features in the new Version 1.1 Beta 3:
- Thumbnails are linked to the full version of the article.
- Portuguese and Spanish language files are included. Thanks to the volunteers who translated these!
- FJ Related Articles is tentatively supported.
- "Developer mode" feature to assist PHP coders in making Auto Read More compatible with other modules.
- Bug where special characters were not displayed correctly has been fixed.
- Bug where multiple thumbnails were sometimes not displayed correctly has been fixed.
Features:
- Automatically adds "Read more..." link after a configurable number of characters.
- Articles with shorter intro text display their intro text only.
- Works on the Front Page, Category Blog, or Section Blog.
- Will not break HTML or break the article in the middle of a word.
- Configurable to ignore specific categories, sections, articles, or the Front Page.
- Commented so that you may read through the code and add your own features if you like.
Note: If you already use a different version of Auto Read More, you must uninstall it first.
Old versions: 1.0, 1.1 Beta, 1.1 Beta 2
Feature requests, bug reports, and general comments welcome!
Excellent
Just what I was looking for!
It works perfectly. Thank you very much
Hi..
Super Sexy Plug in
You know..
With the addition of the image features via lightbox, tags, and Add this button.
I gues no more need to other CCK inside joomla 1.6
Beacause using your plugin enable of creating sexy news and magazines for sports and other fields easy.
I do like it..
I will support it too by all maens.
Sorry I'm new in joomla and I want to use this plugin. I have installed it but I do not how to use it. Cueck!
Hey Emma,
From the Extensions menu, click Plugins. Then find "Content - Auto Read More". If there is a red and white X beside it, it's not yet enabled, so click the X to enable it. Once it's enabled you should be able to click "Content - Auto Read More" to configure the plugin. Hope that helps!
m.
Excellent thank you so much
this should be in core joomla next version
Excellent thank you so much
Any news for the image implement? Nice ; )
ooopss..sorry didn't check the update! NICE JOB!!
Tried copying the php and xml from the beta zip in place of existing files in plugins directory. Totally breaks joomla
Original worked great. New one dont work at all. So pity.
You need to uninstall the old version before installing the new one. However, it's possible that what you did made the problem worse and now it will not automatically uninstall. In that case, do a manual uninstall by removing the Auto Read More row in the #__plugins table, delete the php and xml file, and also the language file from /administrator/language.
m.
So where is this Tidy thing???
Tidy can be installed as a PHP extension. Ask your systems administrator or web hosting company to install it, if you don't already have it. Any decent web host will likely already have it.
m.
Thanks for your really nice plugin. Especially the Beta 1.1 is awful.
Unfortunately there are two issues who still need to be solved.
- support for plugins like tabs&slides or the AllVideosPlugin
- Support for languagespecific characters
Thank yu very much much for your work.
Compliment fail
We apologize that the plugin is not designed to be compatible with Tabs & Slides or AllVideos.
Character issue will be fixed asap.
m.
this is the error i get after installing it.
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /hermes/web01c/b1086/pow.hrg2008/htdocs/plugins/content/AutoReadMore.php on line 30
The original one works great. This is exactly what i need because it includes thumbnail images. If you have a solution to the above error i would love it. If not, keep up the good work because Im so excited about a stable plugin like this. Thanks
Hi,
I'm using your plugin since a few minutes and its very great! I searched around the web for a while for a simple solution and now I found it. Do you think that you can extend your plugin so that it's also adding a link on the mod_newsflash module? I'm using that on the front page and the articles a nice but theres always the full one in the newsflash at the bottom.
Spot on mate, just the ticket. Running the old version and just popped over here to enquire about why the anchor links were missing on my into's and noticed the updated version that doesnt strip html, will upgrade tonight but just wanted to say thanks as this has made my life more than a little easier. Importing articles on a nightly basis via cron jobs from various feeds is so much easier when i dont have to go into them all one by one to add an annoying read more tag.
Probably a stupid question but the "Read More" text, does it come from a language file or is it coded somewhere, i'd like to change it to "click here to continue" as it's been studied that this increases click through rates from about 4% to over 11% on front page articles.
Keep up the good work, and again many thanks, i'll drop by if the uninstall, reinstall goes well or tits up and let you know.
Cheers
Crusader.
Hi
I just installed the Beta and get this error when I go to a page in my website
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /home/.sapphire/******/********/dev/plugins/content/AutoReadMore.php on line 30
Im using Joomla 1.5.14
rgds
Mick
JP and Mick: This issue has been tentatively fixed in 1.1Beta2. Please let us know if you are still having the problem.
Just playing around with things and trying to use CSS to accomplish the resizing effort. Setup a css class as follows
. thumbnail {
width 50%
height 50%
}
Thanks!
Jeff...
Thanks a lot for this fantastic plugin. This is the one iam looking for.
Joomla really needs that extension. It really show be in core version
Thankyou thankyou guys,
I read and tried the hacks but they didn't work in my template. This worked perfectly and cemented your status as legends in my book !
GREAT WORK!!!!, this plugin is a must since joomla lacks the ability to do add read more automatic on to a section blog layout!
I use this plugging with Feed Gator and i could not be any happier, thumbs up!
I like to see for next version of the plugging more control for the Thumbnails things like size and alignment right from the plugging parameters, and a choice to alternate alignment from 1 article to the next.. if there is a way to do this manually i like to know, also if do not mind i will post a link on the joomla.org
Hi,
First, great work this plugin!!!
But I've a problem:
The readmore button appears only on the first article of every page and not on the articles thereafter.
Is this a bug or am I misconfiguring something?
Regards,
Stefan
I found the cause of this problem: The Content - JComments plugin. Disable it or set Readmore Style to "Joomla" instead of "JComments"
thanks 4 u...
thank you very much, it works smoothly,
thanks
I uninstall the old ver, and install the latest version (1.1 Beta 3). then I found that somehow my category blog view now shows nothing but just the category title. If I disable the plugin, it loads fine again.
You need to install the Tidy extension, or set "Strip Formatting" to "Yes".
"Strip Formatting" produce a very strange effect : The explorer cannot find the website anymore, saying :"Problem loading page"
Any idea ?
You need to install the Tidy extension, or set "Strip Formatting" to "Yes".
Hi, Its work great but, It disable the content formatting. If i set Strip Formatting to No. I gets a blank page, I have also tried by activating different template, But it doesn't work,
Please rectify this
Thanks Rishiroy.
You need to install the Tidy extension, or set "Strip Formatting" to "Yes".
I've successfully installed the plugins and activated but does not work. The following error comes up:
Fatal error: Class 'tidy' not found in /home/xxxxx/public_html/xxxxxx/plugins/content/AutoReadMore.php on line 105
Need solution, please help.
The next version of the plugin will have a BIG FLASHING BRIGHT RED message that says "You need to install the Tidy extension, or set 'Strip Formatting' to 'Yes'."
Hi great plugin .. thanks ..When I use this plugin It overrides my settings and puts the pdf,email and print logos on the articles .... I cant get rid of them when the plugin is enabled......have i missed something very obvious ?
Fixed ... !! My bad .. Thought i would post how to fix my problem here..
I found you have to turn off pdf email etc. here as well as the individual articles when useing this plugin
Menus >> Main Menu >> Home >> Parameters - Component.
Thanks again for a great plugin
Where is the "donate" button?