log entries & archives

[ringo]

hello, i just have a little question about the entries.

how come when i posted a new entry the old one entries disappeared? i wanted that to be on my index not just the new entry so people can keep up about my online journal. is there anyway on the configuration to fix this? please help, thank you in advance.



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[coldstone]

Your configs might not be set to show enough days, what is your "Days to keep on main index:" config set to? If it is set to 1, you will only see the last entry.

Or it depends on how you have your templates setup. I think you have your templates to show the latest article.

[ringo]

mine is set to 10

your right it is probably my template. i am going to config this once again.

[ringo]

i finally fixed my error here and now it's working fine. i have to re-do everything which kinda sucks because i lost my old entries @_@

anyhows, one more question:

if you wanted to cut your long entry, how would you do it?

for sample entry lets say..


i found an apple on the ground, want to know what happened?

("click here to see the whole entry") <---- this represents the link to the whole entry but i dont know how to cut and do it.

please advice, thanks!

[ringo]

argg, please help. i have been wanting to cut my long entries just like what livejournal has the LJ cut.
please help, it seems like nobody's responding...

[coldstone]

Basically, I used the extended entry feature for this. I put the teaser text in the entry portion (with a link like '...more') and then I put the full text in th extended entry box when posting.

You can setup the templates so that you don't even have to put the link in your entry, it will show ...link on the main page. Let me know if you need details, I can dig it out of my templates.

[coldstone]

Also, while working on the code, I ran across this template variable (which I found in gm_manual.html):

{{entrymainbodyfirstwords [x]}} and {{entrymorebodyfirstwords [x]}}
Displays only the first X words of that entry's main or extended text, respectively; for example, {{entrymainbodyfirstwords 20}} will display the first twenty words of the main text (or the entire main text if it's less than twenty words, of course). All words displayed this way will be shown without HTML codes.

[ringo]

coldstone said:

Basically, I used the extended entry feature for this. I put the teaser text in the entry portion (with a link like '...more') and then I put the full text in th extended entry box when posting.

You can setup the templates so that you don't even have to put the link in your entry, it will show ...link on the main page. Let me know if you need details, I can dig it out of my templates.

would you mind looking in to my account and see how my variables are set up right? it's really driving me nuts that i could not figure a simple thing to do. sorry. if you PM me i will give you my author handle and password. dont worry i trust you and after your done with my page i can change my password =)

what i tried to do is i put the {{entrymorebodyfirstwords [x]}} i put 5 then the long entry is still there @_@ i cant figure out how to do the teaser part =(