Joe,

Are you still working on generating HTML in excerpts? This would be really useful. 

Joe,

If we cannot generate HTML excerpts is there a way to create a manual read more break in CKEditor? 

I would like to show only the first 250 words of the blog posts (like a preview) then hit a read more ... link.  I can do this through excerpts; except that the excerpt strips out all the formatting and only generates plain text.  I would like to maintain the formatting in the first 250 words excerpt or the preview part of the blog post.   

A manual read more break would solve the problem, but I do not see anyway to set or insert that using the current editor.  Also a setting to create a preview of n of lines (like the excerpt) might work also.

Thanks

Thanks Joe,

That works for the feed, but not the actual blog post itself.  I would like to limit the actual blog posts to the first n characters.  If I turn on use excerpt it outputs the excerpt to the blog post as plain text, regardless of whether you are you typed anything in the excerpt editor.  The HTML excerpt text from the excerpt editor works fine on the actual feed, but does not output the same HTML text to the blog post.  The Blog post still gets the unformulated text.  It appears to me that the blog post is not reading any of the text typed into the excerpt editor, it is just automatically creating an excerpt from the actual blog text editor.  

In my blog excerpt settings I have "use excerpts" and "use excerpt in feed" checked.  HTML excerpt works for feed, but not blog post.  Perhaps I am missing an option?

I am not sure if that is a bug or by design. 

It sure would be simpler if we had a more option in the CKEditor like the Wordpress blogs have.

Hi Joe,

I am using the latest version of MJPortal.  

It's not picking up any of the excerpt in the normal blog post.  As a test, I created a new blog post, gave it a title but left the body blank.   I then went to the excerpt tab and typed in an except text.   I then went back to view the blog post, and the title of the new blog entry is there but nothing else.  No excerpt.  So it appears the blog post picks up the excerpt character settings and applies them to a blog post in the blog editor, but does not use the actual text from the excerpt editor.  This would be OK, but it strips out the formatting when reading the text in the blog editor.  

If MJPortal is supposed to use the excerpt instead of the actual blog text in blog post; then this is not how it is working.  As far as I can tell the excerpt only is working/appearing in the feed. 

I have checked the "use excerpts" and "use excerpts for feed" is there another setting that needs to be set on the site or web config?

For a check I went to the demo and tried it, and in the demo it seems to work as you stated, but on my site it is not.  The excerpts are not being read in the blog post.  I wonder what could be causing that?

Thanks Joe,

That worked.  I replaced the mojoPortal.Features.Business.dll with the one in the latest download 2-3-8-1 package and the excerpt's seems to work as expected.  For good measure I also updated the rest of the patched .dll's described in the readme, so the site should be now be current with the latest patches. 

Thanks again.