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How can I (or is it possible to) change the weblog description field so that I can include more text including somee hard-coded hyperlinks.

Alternatively .. can I add another field to this page (and if so, how)

I guess I’m looking for a text-area rather than just a limited text input.

What I want to do is use this field to provide a short introduction (with some basic hyperlinks) to each ‘channel’ in a multi-channel site in such a way as it can appear in the narrow (navigation) column as an intro to the page that is being viewed.

I can already do this with the categories, but being able to do it with the channel can provide me with another (root) level of introduction

My reasoning is that this should be less resource intensive than setting up a specific embedded global template just to do this.

Christopher Wynter

A possible reference to the form fields could be in this file: cp.publish_ad.php in the cp directory.

Line 1190 blog description
Line 5259 cat_description

Notice that each field is “formed” differently.  Also, both are setup differently in the database:

cat_description is a TEXT field
blog_description is limited to 255 characters

I suppose you can play around with the code to achieve your desired result.  Personally I would save the effort and not touch the core code at all and stick to the tools that EE provides, including the global variable method you mentioned.

You could either put html code in the Weblog Description field up to 255 characters or if that’s not enough then use a global variable.