People keep asking for this so I implemented it this morning. It will be in the next release coming later this week.

Best,

Joe

I agree it would be nicer if we could make the teaser html, but I don't really know a good way to do it and ensure that the resulting fragment is valid.

the special tag (<!-- break -->) implementation present in for example Drupal

That doesn't sound very great to me, it doesn't guarantee correct closing tags to just truncate based on finding this. Consider this markup:

<div><p>Blahh Blah <img src="http://whatever.com" alt='' /> <!-- break --></p></div>

Truncating it at the break is going to leave unclosed tags and real world examples are going to be much more complex markup.

If you can show me an effective method where I can pass in html and get back a valid fragment of a passed in length I will happily integrate it if it really works and is not too complex or expensive to call.

Best,

Joe

Yeah I think the only safe way to do it would be to add a new field in the db for Excerpt or Abstract or whatever we want to call it, but this field would have to be a full text field not a varchar(x) kind of field. Then we could show another instance of the editor for the abstract and the user would have to put in the amount of text/markup he wants for the abstract without risk of truncation. But its also less friendly. The editor should mostly prevent missing closing tags.

I will consider doing this next time I'm working on blog improvements.

Best,

Joe