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Do both

Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Friday, January 11 2002 @ 11:12 pm EST

I think you should do both. =) I think some people will like the way it\'s currently handled, but some of us used to other software (like phpweblog) will really like a format that is familiar (I prefer the summary and story as two different things). Just to illustrate, in phpweblog a user can write a summary (optional) and the story text.

If the summary is empty, words up until the 255th (by default, it\'s definable) word are used as the summary. The summary is then displayed on the index page only, and the body text is displayed on the \"read more\" page only.

A much more elegant solution, I think. As it stands, right now the admin has to do the splitting and it has to be an a part of the entire story, so the first paragraph may not say too much about the overall story whereas a summary could illustrate a good overview of what the story is about.

(Anyways, having this format would have made my phpweblog->geeklog converter a helluvalot easier to write!)

Re: Do both

Authored by: tonylinde on Saturday, January 12 2002 @ 11:55 am EST

Yes, I\'d vote for this solution.
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