Monday, March 08, 2004


Blosxom Excerpts, Improved


Sam Ruby took a look at yesterday’s post and shared a small bit of plugin code that backports a solution for excerpts that he uses in his own Mombo blogging system to Blosxom.

It’s a nicer solution (using a standard div tag) than my meta-tag based one, IMHO.


:: Dave Walker 13:32 (EST/EDT) [+] ::

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Sam Ruby wrote:

Title: Standard?

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I'm not sure how standard it is, but my orginal concern was the ability to put in a multi-line excerpt that would survive my publication process (which involves tidy). The reason why I chose this specific element was that it enabled me to implement this incrementally: by adding the following to my css, I could be sure that it would not show on most modern browsers: .excerpt { display: none; } I'm pretty sure that I have caught all the places where this might "peek through", but I've left the css in... just in case. ;-)
d.w. wrote:

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Response:
I meant standard in terms of "uses an actual (X)HTML tag", instead of a meta-variable.



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