changing default break, teaser word number
prameya - November 1, 2006 - 15:49
hi.. right now.. drupal autobreaks articles to somehting like... 40-50 words.. can i change the default break to something around 20 words?
it would be great, cuz it would solve a lot of my problems...
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That is settable under
That is settable under administrator->settings->posts and change the "Length of trimmed posts:" field. Since it's currently going by number of characters which is defaulted to 600, I'd say 200 characters is the setting you'd want.
nah... i want 100... how do
nah... i want 100... how do i change it to hundred?
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on drupal 4.7 is slight different
i knew that a node content on drupal is trimmed if the node dont have the default tag it cuts the information in a certaint lenght of words specified on "...admin/settings/node". else it cuts where that tag was specified
if you use an editor, you may consider activate a drupalbreak plugin (thats the name of the TinyMCE plugin...)
you can also
you can also use
<!--break-->to place your breakline exact where you want it.
Just in case when you really want the teaser to end at a specific place.