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Where do you set the length of trimmed posts in Drupal 7? Am unable to locate.

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wernercd’s picture

wernercd commented

Trying to figure this out myself... video of initial Drupal 7 has it visible under "Structure > Content Types > Edit > Display" but it's not there on 7b2

wernercd’s picture

wernercd commented

Anyone? no one able to answer this question? I want to remove trimmed from a post... it's not an option I can find in 7 Beta2.

morthylla’s picture

morthylla commented

I've been trying to hide the trimmed preview without success.

1) There is no such option as "length" under Display Settings in each content type Edit form.
2) I tried to use this step by step recipe. Go to:

1. Administration
2. Structure
3. Content Types
4. Manage Display (on any of the content types for which you want to change the default length)
5. Teaser (it's a tab)
6. Click the gear on the right-hand side
7. Change the length
8. Click save

It doesn't work. I got the teaser tab once I enable the Teaser checkbox under custom display settings (inside Manage Display) but it is impossible to configure the teaser length as Unlimited: the form doesn't validate unless I use a positive integer, not 0 or Unlimited.

Does somebody how to get rid of the trimmed preview?

sudhira’s picture

sudhira commented

Instead of tweaking the length, I set this to 'default' and it worked for me.

Wulfkyn’s picture

Wulfkyn commented

I've run into the exact same issue, I cannot find a way to stop the basic page content type from automatically creating a teaser. I'm trying to create the content for my homepage and obviously don't want a silly read more link, but rather the full text displayed at all times. This is a pretty important and basic feature, please advise.

timhobert’s picture

timhobert commented

You can set the length of trimmed posts here: admin/structure/types/manage/article/display

Click the gear on the right-hand side

Set the length to whatever you'd like.

Now if you DON'T want posts trimmed, change the format dropdown from "Summary or trimmed" to "Default".

But (correct me if I'm wrong here) I noticed with the default Drupal 7 theme - at this time - the "Read more" link remains there even if the posts aren't trimmed. That's something that should be fixed in the default theme, in my opinion.

All that said... I highly recommend you install the Views module, enable it, then go to this page: admin/structure/views and enable the "Front page" view. It allows for lots of customization of the front page. Views is probably the most important module to use with Drupal.