I guess there probably is a theme or component that does this. I’d like the list of topics to include at least the start of the topic text, facebook-like (ideally with a button to expand and display the whole topics inline) – or that simply includes the whole topic text directly. I think this will be really helpful for my members who will be coming from facebook-world where there are no titles and you can read through multiple posts without having to click through anything, just scroll.
Hi, you have Topic list excerpt for this
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There are a few ways
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Tool me a bit but there is also this one that maybe if interest. Lots of CSS options posted in the topic.
I think this theme is quite good: it has both topic excerpts as well as a Facebook-like design:
I’ve tried Fakebook but it really doesn’t work out on desktop. It’s also skewed towards publications with visuals imho, which will not be the case for us. I really like the idea but it’s not “polished” enough to be usable for me :-/
Is it worth me giving more specific feedback regarding the issues?
Topic List Previews is a pretty good match, thanks! Just need to figure out how to get “enough excerpt” to show up, rather than just a few lines.
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Review the code on GitHub. If you can identify the lines) of code related you can create a custom component and override it with your code. By adding ! important.
The author or another member might provide the snippet your looking for as well.
I think usually the excerpt length is based on the site setting in core. A theme cannot change which data is available. It can request additional data, but doing that for every user on every post shown in the topic list would add a lot of requests.
merefield’s plugin adds a separate setting because plugins can change what themes cannot.
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So a site setting maybe?
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