I’m building prior to moving my site over from MT (hurrah!) and in MT I had the ability to truncate each story - set to a number of words. I used this to create a home page list of summarised entries and if no summary actually existed it would use the body field instead. I can’t yet find a way of doing this with EE:

For example I would like to be able to truncate the {body} content to 50 words to get this effect:

Story Headline
Lorum ipsume blah blah urna, fermentum a, eleifend vel, elementum ut, nunc. Nulla nibh elit, iaculis sed, aliquet nec, sollicitudin sit amet, ante. Donec in metus eget lacus malesuada porta. Phasellus placerat facilisis mauris. Duis elit ipsum, mattis et, sagittis vel, interdum sit amet, nibh. Fusce egestas. Praesent aliquet lorem…  Read More…

The alternative is to fill in the summary field in the entry - but I have hundreds of posts and no time…

Any ideas please?

TIA
Simon

There is a word limiter plugin that will do this for you.

Word Limiter

-or-

Word Limit Plus

Brilliant!

Thanks Sue!

There is also the Filter HTML plugin that does what you want and quite a bit more.

I’m having a look at Filter HTML but the link for further information is a 404 and I cannot find the info on his site as its been redesigned - does anyone have the full details of this plug-in to hand? Or is it all in the filter module explanation? Erm… yes it is - its all there… No need for anyone to tell me now.

You can install the plugin (Filter HTML) and there is quite a bit more information about what it can do in the CP Plugin Manager.

Yep, I spotted it after I had posted! I did not realise that the plug-in title was a link to the plug-ins information. Thankyou.