By Jack_Sparrow on
Is there a module that allows for the teasers of articles/stories to be viewed in a standard layout, such as having the image inserted in a story being made into a thumbnail and then appearing in the teaser on the home page on the left-hand side with x amount of characters appearing next to it?
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contemplate
Try the contemplate module, http://drupal.org/project/contemplate.
Subscribing. I'm having
Subscribing. I'm having terrible trouble with the content of teaser lists.
This is one of the worst areas of drupal; abysmal.
BTW, contemplate doesn't run on my host with 32mb of php memory.
This is one of the worst
I'm not saying that I totally disagree with you, but can you elaborate on you problems?
I don't know if contemplate is a heavy consumer of memory... which other modules do you have installed? Are you using disk-based or database-based contemplates?
> can you elaborate on you
> can you elaborate on you problems
Generally just a lack of structured methods which control teaser creation.
Users simply want to create their post easily, usually using FCKeditor/TinyMCE, with text with two or three good sized photos inserted at various positions, or maybe an embedded video or audio file. Sometimes this media is at the top or near the top of the post, which Drupal then includes in the teaser and it looks really ugly in teaser-lists and Views.
So drupal needs to have a mechanism to:
· stop any media within the content from being included in the teaser
· stop all media and html from being included in feeds (as the teaser is used for feeds)
However, at the same time we'd like a small thumbnail in our teasers, usually aligned top-right. But there is no good, easy automatic way of doing this that I know of. CCk imagefield and imagecache go some way towards it, but you end up having to style the image field into your teaser, and as far as I'm concerned no module should ever make you edit your theme. The other problem is that it isn't automatic - the user must upload an additional image especially for the teaser.
I wouldn't take my gnashing of teeth to heart. I have lots of unsolved problems in many areas:
· menu trails not working properly
· breadcrumbs not working properly
· Views2 crashing with a certain view I need
· fckeditor not reflecting how the node will actually look after saving
· media handling is a PITA
· theming is a PITA
· multi-language doesn't work and is really, really complicated & convoluted
· drupal requires and assumes users have working email for many features - my users don't have email
· upload module is a PITA, and uploadpath module has weird bugs
· getting taxonomy, views, uploadpath and pathauto to all produces congruent urls & sections is a PITA
· etc
and the list grows everyday.