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I have looked every where and just can’t seem to find anything.
Is there anyway within EE v1.6.9 to post a entry excerpt on the blog homepage and they either click on the title or read more links and it takes them to the entire blog article?

Thanks

Hi,

I think you’ll need to do something like:

{exp:weblog:entries blah blah blah dynamic="off"}

<a href="http://{url_title_path=blog/entry}">{title}</a>
{if excerpt == ""}

{!-- if you haven't got an excerpt field you'll have to use a truncating plug-in see <a href="http://expressionengine.com/downloads">http://expressionengine.com/downloads</a> or http://devot-ee.com for one --}
{exp:whatevertruncatingplugin}{body}{/exp:whatevertruncatingplugin}

{!-- if you have got a custom field for excerpt, just use it here --}
{if:else}
{excerpt}
{/if}

<a href="http://{url_title_path=blog/entry}">read more »</a>

{/exp:weblog:entries}

You’ll probably see what I do is actually do an {if} conditional to test if there is an excerpt in case the end user hasn’t filled one in.

Hope that helps,
Paul.

hey thanks, the truncate plugin works great.
I tried finding one just couldnt think of what it was called besides excerpt, but now I know, lol.

Thanks again

Great! Glad that worked for you.
Paul

Glad to see you’re all set 😉 Please post again as needed.