Read More automatically in the categories

rikaryo

Friends I'm wanting to migrate a site with the JA Event camp 2.0 template and I've already done all the update of the extensions that can be shared with Joomla 4, but I ran into a problem.

In the template category I can't get any plugin for J4. In Joomla 3 I used Content autoreadmore (which won't update to J4) which limits the characters of the texts and people always complain about having to use the Read More button.

In the Magz II template the articles in the category have character limitations. How to add this same function in JA Eventcamp?

saguaros

Hi rikaryo

You can achieve that in JA Event Camp template, try this tweak:

1/ Go to file: /templates/ja_eventcamp/html/com_content/category/blog_item.php

2/ At approx line 68:

<div class="item-intro">
<?php echo $this->item->introtext; ?>
</div>

change it to:

<div class="item-intro">
<?php 
$rawText = strip_tags($this->item->introtext);
$frags = explode(' ', $rawText);
$max = 20;
$count = count($frags) > $max ? $max : count($frags);
$introtext = '';
for ($i=0; $i < $count; $i++) { 
    $introtext .= $frags[$i] . ' ';
}

echo $introtext . '...';
?>
</div>

rikaryo

saguaros

It worked at the JA Event Camp, thank you very much!

I wonder if for the JA Focus 2.0 template the procedure is the same?

Because I tried to modify it too and I couldn't find the <div class="item-intro">

thanks

saguaros

rikaryo

With JA Focus, you can find this section:

<section class="article-intro clearfix">
  <?php // Content is generated by content plugin event "onContentBeforeDisplay" ?>
	<?php echo $this->item->event->beforeDisplayContent; ?>

	<?php echo $this->item->introtext; ?>
</section>

and replace the introtext with above code